{"id":43613,"date":"2022-04-17T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/17\/shanghai-lockdown-desperation-rises-food-runs-low-china"},"modified":"2022-04-17T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T06:00:22","slug":"shanghais-lockdown-desperation-rises-as-food-runs-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43613","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai\u2019s lockdown: desperation rises as food runs low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s determination to enforce zero-Covid policies is pushing its vast, bustling financial hub to breaking point<\/p>\n<p>At about noon last Tuesday, Yu Wenming, an 82-year-old man in Shanghai, called his local residential committee for help. \u201cI\u2019ve used up my medicines. Nor do I have anything to eat. I\u2019m feeling awful,\u201d Yu, who had tested positive for Covid, told the party secretary, Zhang Zhen.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang listened patiently, saying he had already referred the case to his superiors and there was nothing he could do. \u201cDo you mean I should just wait here until I die, then?\u201d Yu asked. Zhang responded with an angry rant, complaining that he too was completely powerless in this situation: \u201cI\u2019m worried too. I\u2019m angry too \u2026 But there\u2019s nothing we can do \u2026 I don\u2019t know what to do either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/17\/shanghai-lockdown-desperation-rises-food-runs-low-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s determination to enforce zero-Covid policies is pushing its vast, bustling financial hub to breaking pointAt about noon last Tuesday, Yu Wenming, an 82-year-old man in Shanghai, called his local residential committee for help. \u201cI\u2019ve used up my &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1066,914,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43623,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43613\/revisions\/43623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}