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In fight against Covid, Shanghai erects metal barriers outside streets, apartments

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city's financial district Pudong under a local government directive, as per reports. Main entrances of buildings where positive cases have been found were sealed up, with a small opening for pandemic prevention workers to pass through.

In a video shared by a resident on a social media platform, residents can be seen shouting from balconies at workers trying to set up fencing before relenting and taking it away.

Other videos showed people trying to pull fences down. In one video, according to news agency AP, residents leaving a building in Shanghai's Xuhui district broke down the mesh fence barricade at their front entrance and went looking for the security guard they believed to be responsible for putting it up. "This is so disrespectful of the rights of the people inside, using metal barriers to enclose them like domestic animals," said one user on social media platform Weibo. "Isn't this a fire hazard?" asked another Weibo user.

This comes after a notice dated Saturday shared online said that the authorities were imposing a "hard quarantine" in some areas. Covid situation in Shanghai China reported 21,796 new community-transmitted Covid-19 infections on Sunday, with the vast majority being asymptomatic cases in Shanghai.

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