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CHECKING OUT A shopper checks out the items she bought as a cashier in protective gear assists her at a supermarket in Shanghai’s Xuhui district on Monday, May 16, 2022. XINHUA PHOTO SHANGHAI: Shanghai declared on Tuesday it had achieved "zero-Covid" across all its districts, sparking derision on social media as millions in China's biggest city remained under lockdown. Confronted with its worst outbreak since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, China — the last major economy still closed off to the world — put the city of 25 million under heavy restrictions in early April. The government's insistence on...