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Added on the 05/04/2022 04:08:39 - Copyright : AFP EN
Residents get tested for Covid-19 in their residential compounds under lockdown in Shanghai. 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. 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
Residents in Shanghai take Covid tests while under lockdown. China reported over 20,000 Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, the highest daily tally given since the start of the pandemic, with Shanghai the heart of the virus surge despite being in lockdown. IMAGES
Images of skyline in the eastern district of Shanghai as millions of people in China's financial hub are confined to their homes on Monday. The eastern half of the city goes into lockdown to curb the nation's biggest Covid outbreak. IMAGES
Residents of Washington DC line up to get tested for Covid-19 after the Christmas holiday. The United States surged past 19 million confirmed coronavirus infections on Sunday, adding a million cases in less than a week. IMAGES
Residents of Washington, DC, line up early in the morning at a Covid-19 drive-through test site. More than one million deaths from the novel coronavirus have been recorded worldwide since it emerged in China in December 2019, according to an AFP tally based on official sources at 2230 GMT Sunday. IMAGES
Residents in Washington, DC, head to George Washington University to get tested for the coronavirus as a facility was set up in a tent, outside the building. The US capital with the neighboring states of Virginia and Maryland was declared a Covid-19 hotspot this week. IMAGES