Covid cases in Shanghai surge despite lockdown


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PANICK BUYING People buy eggs next to a market in Shanghai’s Yangpu district on Monday, March 28, 2022. AFP PHOTO SHANGHAI: Shanghai recorded a steep climb in Covid-19 cases on Tuesday as growing anxiety in the Chinese city of about 25 million prompted panic buying at supermarkets. Millions endured a second day under lockdown after authorities effectively split the country's biggest urban area in two, with residents of the city's eastern half confined to their homes for four days and subjected to mandatory testing. China reported 6,886 domestic Covid cases nationwide on Tuesday, with more than 4,400 of them detected...