Millions Tested in Shanghai As China Grapples Covid Resurgence

Sumber: Reuters | Editor: Anastasia Lilin Yuliantina

KONTAN.CO.ID - SHANGHAI/BEIJING. Millions of people in Shanghai queued for a third day of mass Covid-19 testing on Thursday as authorities in several Chinese cities scrambled to stamp out new outbreaks that have rekindled worries about growth in the world's second-largest economy.

Unless local officials succeed in preventing the virus from spreading, they could be compelled to invoke prolonged, major restrictions on residents' movement, under China's "dynamic zero Covid" strategy.