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Outside Wuhan's Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, once suspected of being the epicentre of the outbreaks, that has been closed since January 2020. More than three years after the discovery of the first cases of the coronavirus, the origin of the pandemic remains enigmatic. IMAGES
A supermarket heaves with customers in Beijing as rumours swirled online that authorities were about to impose a three-day lockdown, prompting many to rush to buy food. IMAGES
Residents in a locked down compound line up for Covid tests as Shanghai logs 39 Covid deaths Sunday, its highest daily toll despite weeks of lockdowns. IMAGES
Images of people walking in protective gear in a quiet street of Shanghai as the city reports that three people had died from Covid-19. This is the first official announcement of deaths from the latest outbreak that plunged the megacity into a weeks-long lockdown, sparking widespread anger and rare protests. IMAGES
Workers in PPE test residents, including elderly and children, in a locked-down Shanghai residential district. Shanghai, a city of 25 million and China's economic engine room, has become the heart of the country's biggest outbreak since the peak of the first virus wave in Wuhan over two years ago, rattling the country's adherence to a strict zero-Covid policy. Residents locked down since early April have complained of food shortages and over-zealous officials forcing them into state quarantine, as authorities rush to construct tens of thousands of beds to house Covid-19 patients with daily infections topping 20,000. IMAGES