From a student in Shandong expelled for protesting lockdown to a pet quarantine center in Shenzhen: Here’s how Covid-19 has affected other parts of China
As it enters its fourth week, Shanghai’s bungled lockdown continues to hold the limelight.
Articles about pet culls, food shortages, and a dangerous depletion of emergency medical resources, as well as memes and videos of epidemic prevention workers dancing have been circulating on social media. Western media too, has focused its attention on Shanghai, speculating what a lockdown of the port city means for global trade. But all the attention on one of China’s biggest cities has meant that other significant Covid-19 events on the Chinese mainland have gone underreported. TWOC takes a look at some of the more major ones:
Alex Colville is the former culture editor at The World of Chinese. Blown to China by the tides of curiosity, then marooned here by the squalls of Covid, Alex used to write for 1843, The Economist, and the Spectator from the confines of a cold London flat. When he’s not writing for TWOC, he can be found researching his bi-weekly column for SupChina from the confines of his freezing Beijing hutong.
