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Discontent is mounting in Shanghai , China ’s largest and wealthiest city, now for several weeks under a rigid lockdown aimed at crushing a covid outbreak that is straining the nerves and affecting the livelihoods of its 25 million inhabitants and erodes public confidence in the authorities. The effects that have occurred in recent weeks – food shortages, lack of access to medical care, overcrowded quarantine centers and infants separated from their parents – have frayed the nerves of a city that has long boasted of being a pragmatic financial center at the forefront of China ’s decades-long transition to...
