More Chinese cities look to lockdown as coronavirus outbreak spreads

Shanghai, home to the world's largest port and large parts of China's financial markets including the stock exchange, remains under a strict lockdown

China is now battling the worst Covid-19 outbreak in the past two years, with infections popping up in more and more cities and no end in sight for the Shanghai outbreak that has left tens of millions of people shut inside their homes. 
 

In the current wave which began in late February, restrictions and lockdowns in Shenzhen and some other cities successfully stopped the spread of the omicron variant in the community, allowing them to start opening up again. However other places are seeing flareups and instituting restrictions on movement to try and contain infections before they reach the crisis