Pandemic aid stalled in the Senate and Shanghai stuck in lockdown: The Week in Covid News.

The federal government has run out of money to cover coronavirus vaccines, testing and treatment for uninsured Americans, but Congress has yet to approve additional funding for the pandemic response. A bill that would allocate $10 billion for these purposes was stalled on Tuesday when Senate Republicans refused to advance it without a vote to keep in place pandemic -era border restrictions that President Biden has decided to lift. . Congress is now on a two- week hiatus, so the impasse means final passage of the aid the Biden administration has declared urgently needed will stretch through at least the…