China thought it was rid of Covid-19, but the Delta and Omicron variants have changed the game and are straining the government’s “zero Covid” policy. Faced with the upsurge in cases in Shanghai, a city of 25 million inhabitants, the authorities have decided on strict confinement: no exit is authorized, even to refuel, and infected people are sent to treatment centers. isolation, sometimes unsanitary. Faced with this situation, Chinese people are expressing their exasperation on social networks – certain videos, such as those showing residents screaming at the windows of their buildings, have gone around the world.
What does this Chinese confinement actually look like? What are the excesses of this restrictive policy? Simon Leplâtre, correspondent for Monde in Shanghai, recounts daily life under extreme confinement in this episode of the “L’Heure du Monde” podcast.
An episode produced by Garance Muñoz, directed by Amandine Robillard and presented by Morgane Tual.
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