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Nearly all of Shanghai's 25 million residents were under stay-at-home orders on Saturday, as parents raised fears of being separated from their children in the event of a positive Covid-19 test. The city, which is the epicentre of China's most severe Covid outbreak since the first months of the pandemic, has faced weeks of phased lockdowns. Authorities had vowed not to shut down the whole city, China's finance hub, but have conceded to rare failures in their attempts to control the outbreak. On Saturday, Shanghai had over 6,300 local cases -- more than two-thirds of the nationwide caseload, which is...
