Shanghai’s Covid-19 model faces its sternest test yet

For the past two years Shanghai’s policies on Covid-19 have given residents a degree of flexibility and freedom rarely seen elsewhere in China.The city of 24 million residents has never imposed a lockdown or restricted transport to deal with outbreaks and has a more relaxed quarantine policy for incoming travellers compared with Beijing or Guangzhou, requiring seven days of home quarantine after two weeks in a central facility.But the Shanghai model, the success of which was celebrated by the…

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