Confined to his building in Shanghai, our correspondent Lou Kisiela explains that on his floor, the garbage has not been collected for several days for lack of staff and because the inhabitants no longer want to take the elevator for fear of being contaminated.
As there is at least one positive case in his building, our reporter cannot go further than the entrance of his building.
Here, the inhabitants come to collect their provisions, but it has been very complicated for several days to order food.
Many supermarkets are closed, and those that remain open are saturated.
In the rest of the city, the health infrastructure is overwhelmed.
Exhibition halls and stadiums are therefore transformed into isolation centers for the sick and for contact cases.
But faced with the influx, there is not enough space to welcome everyone with dignity.
"It's chaos. There's no one in charge. Everyone is fighting for supplies. Everyone is panicking," one person wrote in the commentary to a video of a center east of Shanghai that lack of everything, even food.
"Look at this! People are fighting over food!" can be heard in another video.
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Quickly censored, these images circulate by the hundreds on Chinese social networks, and they are shocking.
We see patients forcibly isolated, including a woman beaten by guards.
Other images much criticized by Internet users: those of sick children who are separated from their parents when they are not positive, and who are treated separately, in hospitals dedicated to Covid-19.
The end of containment in Shanghai has not yet been announced as the Chinese authorities cling to the "zero Covid" policy, overtaken for the first time by the Omicron variant.
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