Shanghai extends lockdown amid ‘dire’ COVID-19 outbreak


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BEIJING (AP) — The COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai, China’s largest metropolis, remains “extremely dire” and is keeping its 26 million people in quarantine, a local official said Tuesday. The outbreak in the city “remains at a high level,” said the director of the Shanghai epidemic control task force, Gu Honghui, in statements collected by state media. “The situation is extremely dire,” Gu said. China has sent more than 10,000 health workers from across the country to help the city, including 2,000 military personnel, and is mass-testing residents, some of whom have been confined for weeks. Most of eastern Shanghai, which...