Shanghai blockades Covid-hit buildings, fuelling fresh outcry

Shanghai, China’s largest city and most important economic hub, is battling the country's biggest-ever Covid-19 outbreak with a policy that forces all positive cases into central quarantine facilities.

Shanghai authorities battling an outbreak of Covid-19 have erected mesh barriers outside some residential buildings, sparking fresh public outcry over a lockdown that has forced much of the city’s 25 million people to stay home.