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Beijing: The United States on Saturday warned against “arbitrary” Covid-19 measures in China and said it would let some staff leave its Shanghai consulate amid a wave of infections in the locked-down megacity . Until March, China had kept case numbers low with instant lockdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions, but more than 100,000 cases have been reported in Shanghai since March as part of a a test of the strict zero-Covid country policy. The city’s roughly 25 million residents have been locked down in phases over the past week, prompting complaints of food shortages and viral videos of disgruntled...
