Residents in half of Shanghai are bracing for the second phase of a citywide lockdown that will start on Friday. Long queues were seen outside some supermarkets on Wednesday, and residents emptied shelves. The Omicron outbreak in Shanghai is one of a series across the country that is testing the government’s ability to enforce a strict ‘zero-Covid’ strategy without overly disrupting the economy and people’s daily lives
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