
Shanghai surprise: How I survived 70 days confinement in the world's strictest Covid lockdown
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In Hong Kong, Omicron was running amok, but in Shanghai cases were still in the single digits and with China's iron-fisted approach to infections it seemed reasonable to think things would stay that way. That was my first mistake.
It was early March and the city was in the throes of the biggest coronavirus outbreak per capita in the world.
Little could I have known as I boarded the plane that my cunning escape plan would take me from the frying pan into the fire; that as I landed in Shanghai I would be swapping the world's biggest outbreak for the "world's strictest lockdown" -- and 70 days of enforced confinement.

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