Omicron: Shanghai lockdown needed to stop ‘serious’ community spread, experts say

Chinese financial hub Shanghai started a two-stage Covid-19 lockdown and mass testing on Monday, moving away from a strategy of targeted controls.

Virus experts say the lockdown – the city’s biggest – is necessary to stop an outbreak of the highly transmissible Omicron variant from worsening.

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