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Shanghai Locks Down Half of City to Fight Covid Outbreak
- Move comes after more targeted measures failed to stop spread
- Tesla extends production pause at Shanghai plant to Thursday
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Shanghai will lock down the city in two phases to conduct a mass testing blitz for Covid-19, as authorities scramble to staunch a spiraling outbreak that’s challenging China’s zero-tolerance approach to the virus like never before.
At 5am on Monday, the city of 25 million people locked down areas east of the Huangpu River, which includes its financial district and industrial parks, for four days. The lockdown then shifts to the other half of the city, in the west, for another four days, according to a statement Sunday from the local government.