Shanghai, a city of 28 million people has been locked down now for five weeks... and dozens of other cities have had partial lockdowns. 

But covid cases and deaths in China are way lower than ours here in Australia... and our population is less than 2% of China’s  

The reason it’s so strange is that for the last two years Chinese people were living quite normally while parts of Australia went in and out of lockdown.  

Now the tables have turned...  

So, in this episode we’ll speak to New York Times reporter Amy Qin who is covering China from Taiwan, and a Shanghai local from inside her locked down apartment, as you’ll hear she is sounding very depressed. 

 

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• SA, Tasmania and Western Australia roll back restrictions

 

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