Setback for Shanghai's COVID battle; Beijing focuses on mass testing | The Peninsula Qatar

Shanghai/Beijing: China’s commercial capital of Shanghai was dealt a blow on Monday as authorities reported 58 new COVID-19 cases outside areas under lockdown, while Beijing pressed on with testing millions of people on a May Day holiday few were celebrating. Tough coronavirus measures in Shanghai have stirred rare public anger, with millions of the city’s 25 million people stuck indoors for more than a month, some sealed inside fenced off residential compounds, and many struggling to secure daily necessities. Shanghai residents breathed a sigh of relief at the weekend on news that no cases had been confirmed outside areas under…