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By Brenda Goh

The conditions and deaths at the hospital are a sharp rebuke of China’s strategy of sticking to a zero-COVID policy as it deals with the outbreak in Shanghai in which most of the infected people don’t have symptoms.

Shanghai has become a test case for the country's strict policy. Home quarantine is not an option and, until public outrage prompted a change, Shanghai was separating COVID-positive children from their parents.

Shanghai is doubling down on the quarantine policy, converting schools, new apartment blocks and vast exhibition halls into centers, the largest of which can hold 50,000 people.

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As China faces a Covid surge, residents are asking how far the government is willing to go.

SHANGHAI, April 10 — Lu, 99, was a long-time resident at Shanghai’s Donghai Elderly Care hospital, her loved ones secure that she was getting round-the-clock care at the city’s largest such centre. That was before Covid-19 struck China’s biggest city last month, the country’s worst...

BEIJING (AP) — A series of deaths at a hospital for elderly patients in Shanghai is...

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BEIJING--A series of deaths at a hospital for elderly patients in Shanghai is underscoring the dangerous consequences of Chinas stubborn pursuit of a zero-COVID approach amid an escalating outbreak in the city of 26 million people.