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China, where Omicron is spreading, many cities including Shanghai have been locked down.
In some blocked areas, chaos continues, with residents protesting in groups because they have not been able to get food properly.
Correspondent Song Wook from Beijing.
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Changchun, Jilin Province, where the city is closed.
An old man begs to sell something in front of a grocery store.
[Changchun City Resident: Where do you get Weixin?
Can't you take pity?] I didn't
know how to order online, so I came in person, but I couldn't enter the store because of the rules.
When residents complained that the food arrived late even after ordering online, or that the food was not eatable, the Changchun city authorities apologized in haste.
[Liu Renyuan / Deputy Secretary General of Changchun City, Jilin Province: We deeply apologize for the inconvenience caused to citizens' lives.]
Shanghai, which divided the city into east and west and put on lockdown for 4 days each, has a problem with food prices soaring along with hoarding. is becoming
Residents of some lockdown areas have even staged a collective protest.
[Shanghai City Resident: I want to eat vegetables at regular prices!
I want to eat regular-priced vegetables!]
An apartment complex was caught not distributing groceries to quarantined residents on time, and refused a request from a family member of an asthma patient to have ambulance crews use auto-defibrillators. has occurred.
A video of quarantine agents conducting a PCR test on fish at a fish market became known through social media, causing controversy.
Chinese online critics continue to criticize what they have learned from the previous massive lockdowns in Wuhan and Xi'an.
In mainland China, the number of new coronavirus cases reached the 8,000 level for two days in a row, of which about 70% occurred in Shanghai.
From today (1st), Shanghai has entered a total blockade of the 'Push' area, which is the western half, and there are about 30,000 Koreans living here.