For weeks, Shanghai’s 25 million residents were assured that they would not be locked down. Then when the order came, the lockdown was supposed to last only seven days. It is now almost into its fourth week, and the government is struggling to suppress the chaos.
Last week, 82-year-old Yu Wenming called his neighbourhood committee to say he had run out of medicine and food.
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