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In Shanghai, China, there was even a case of blocking the entrance to an apartment building with barbed wire.

The city lockdown to contain the corona is getting stronger.

In the midst of this, cluster infections are also occurring in the capital city of Beijing.



This is Correspondent Songwook in Beijing.



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A barbed wire fence is installed in front of an apartment door in Shanghai.



This is to prevent residents from leaving the apartment.



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[Residents Committee officials: According to the orders of the senior quarantine command, the buildings in the 'control zone' are temporarily blocked.]



As the blockade of residential complexes was strengthened following the previously closed roads with barbed wire, residents started protesting. .



[Shanghai Resident: What kind of thinking, what kind of executive made you do this?] In



areas where public toilets are used, portable toilets were provided to each house.



In Shanghai, where lockdown began on the 28th of last month, there are still around 20,000 new cases of COVID-19, and the death toll has risen to 87.



There is still a shortage of food supplies and complaints about receiving moldy meat and other items are continuing.



A video of the despair of Shanghai residents and critics of the authorities was posted on the Internet, but was immediately deleted in China.



[A resident looking for medicine in the neighborhood ('April Voice' video): My child has a fever.

Auntie, are you there?]



In the midst of this, the capital city of Beijing also has an emergency.



Following the group infection of about 10 students at a middle school, there were also cases of infection by group tourists and interior company employees.



[Fang Xinghuo/Deputy Director of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention: This infection has already spread quietly for a week, and the group of infected people is diverse and the range of activities is wide.]



Schools where the cluster infection occurred have suspended classes, and access to residential areas of the infected is controlled.



Some are concerned that Beijing will be closed like Shanghai.



(Video source: Weibo, China, video coverage: Gyu Ma, video editing: Jinwon Kim)