Shanghai turns residences into Covid isolation facilities, sparking protest

The city has begun converting schools, recently finished apartment blocks and exhibition halls into quarantine centres, and announced last week it had set up more than 160,000 beds across more than 100 make-shift hospitals.

Shanghai is converting residential buildings into quarantine centres to house a mounting number of Covid-19 cases, but the move is sparking anger and protest from neighbours worried they are being put at increased risk of infection.