Shanghai has said it will lock down each half of the city by turns for mass COVID-19 testing starting Monday amid surging infections.
The eastern half of the city -- comprising around 11 million residents -- will go into lockdown at the start of the week for four days, while the 14 million remaining people will start lockdown from Friday, the Shanghai government said on Sunday night.
Shanghai registered 2,678 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday alone, accounting for nearly half of all new cases recorded in China that day, according to the country's National Health Commission. "How can I buy groceries? ... I can't get medicine for my kids ...how can we order this online when we can't even get a hospital appointment?" wrote one social media user, who said their Shanghai neighborhood had been closed for 15 days.