Shanghai residents struggling to find food as lockdown enters 3rd week
Global News
Videos coming out of Shanghai show residents taking to the streets and banging pots and pans on their balcony, claiming they are starving in their apartments.
Shanghai’s tight lockdown to combat a COVID-19 wave is entering its third week, and residents are attempting to get around China’s online censorship to voice their frustrations with the restrictions.
Public discontent among Shanghai locals has been growing as the government tries to improve the distribution of food and essential goods to residents in the locked-down city.
Eleven thousand delivery personnel are working to keep Shanghai’s 26 million residents fed and supplied, but reports emerging on Twitter show that locals have been struggling to find reliable sources of food.
Delivery services like Meituan, Alibaba’s Freshippo online grocery platform and its Ele.me service are overloaded but still operating. People in the city have been complaining that they must wake up at dawn for a chance to book a grocery delivery; others find that those orders have been sold out in seconds.
As public backlash against the lockdown continues, China’s government has become increasingly defensive and is censoring videos and online complaints coming out of the city.
Some videos (mostly unverified) that have slipped through the cracks reveal residents taking to the streets and banging pots and pans on their balconies, calling out that they are starving to death in their apartments.
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