Covid: Shanghai bans use of the term lockdown in the media – 02/06/2022 – World – Around World Journal

Chinese officials have instructed media professionals not to use the term “lockdown ending” to describe the reopening of the country’s far-eastern city of Shanghai, which last Wednesday left a strict two-month lockdown to contain the spread of Covid. The information was shared by the China Digital Times, a bilingual website focused on the Asian country and based in California, USA. The authorities’ guidance was leaked by journalists who received it. According to the excerpts made available, the argument is that, unlike Wuhan —considered the origin of the pandemic—, Shanghai “has never been declared a lockdown”. “All parts of the city…