Guangzhou has halted most arrivals into the city while only granting leave to residents with a “definitive need”.
The Chinese port city of Guangzhou banned non-essential travel while Shanghai, the country’s financial hub, is easing lockdown but continues to report a large number of new Covid-19 cases as China battles an omicron surge on its eastern half despite growing opposition to its stringent zero-Covid approach. In accordance with its stated “zero-Covid” policy China has enacted a stringent lockdown in Shanghai, which was supposed to end on Tuesday, but has since been extended indefinitely. The harsh nature of the lockdown has prompted anger and protests from the city’s residents amid reports of food shortages, children being separated from their parents and deaths of unattended elderly patients at hospitals.
