Shanghai News

Shanghai’s cultural and tourist venues have adopted a “location code” which will require residents and tourists to scan and register to gain access after the venues reopen. The venues include A-level tourist attractions, hotels, theaters, museums, public libraries, art galleries, Internet cafes, community-based cultural activity centers,...

Nearly 9,000 nucleic acid sample collection sites have been set up across Shanghai to serve the increasing number of employees returning to work as the city’s pandemic gradually wanes. More than half of the polymerase chain reaction testing sites have opened mainly for workers maintaining urban...

“ Does anyone have anything useful for decorations? We would like to decorate our rented home a little, so we can celebrate our online wedding on May 2 with parents back in our native hometown. Please do send the word around.” This is a message sent...

Shanghai’s recent PCR plus antigen screening and other control measures are showing growing effects, with a rising number of residents now in precautionary areas and fewer still under lockdown, according to the city’s health commission. A total of 192 COVID-19 infections were detected during at-risk people...

More than 800 young volunteers in Shanghai have been organized to pick up and dispense medicines for residents under lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The 872 volunteers recruited from the city’s youth federation have been divided into three volunteer teams to pick up medicines at local...

Medics or volunteers wearing the white hazmat suit are nicknamed Big White. It is part of the secondary protection gear for those who make close contact with suspected or at-risk groups, or stay indoors with them for a long time. Secondary protection gear includes six items:...

More than 50 youth from the city and neighboring provinces have been staying on Chongming Island since March to fight the pandemic in their own special way — flying 60 drones that spray fungicides and insecticides to nurture crops. They reside in a company dormitory, inspect...

One of the stories to emerge from the Shanghai lockdown is that of volunteers in hazmat suits being applauded and complimented, and, in some cases, confronted with hostility. As the city marked more than a month of lockdown, people in white suits are a major sight...