Coronavirus: Shanghai hunkers down for final COVID-19 battle, Beijing fighting smaller but persistent outbreak


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Related video: Health chief Ashley Bloomfield says COVID-19 hospitalisations likely to rise over winter. Credits: Video - Newshub; Images - Getty Shanghai was tightening its COVID-19 lockdown for what it hoped would be the final week of its battle with the virus before it could gradually begin to ease restrictions, while Beijing kept fighting its much smaller but persistent outbreak. China's commercial hub of 25 million hoped to come out of its painful six-week-old lockdown later this month. Authorities on Saturday (local time) were hoping one last round of tightening would eradicate the last infections of the country's worst COVID...