Shanghai parents fear separation from kids after positive Covid test


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Shanghai's mass-testing regime has seeded anxiety among parents about being separated from children Hector RETAMAL AFP 2 min Shanghai (AFP) – 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...