"Zero Covid" in Shanghai, but the confinement continues

"Zero Covid": Shanghai indicated on Tuesday that it had overcome the coronavirus (excluding quarantine establishments), an announcement quickly mocked on the internet, because a large part of the 25 million inhabitants remain confined. China is facing its worst outbreak since the start of the pandemic. It is also the last major planetary economy to remain isolated from the rest of the world with anti-Covid restrictions. To face this wave of the potentially fatal Omicron variant for the many unvaccinated seniors, Shanghai, by far the most affected city, placed all the inhabitants under confinement in early April. But the difficulties of…