BEIJING—China’s largest city of Shanghai is ordering mass testing Friday of all 1.3 million residents of its downtown Yangpu district and confining them to their homes at least until results are known.
The demand is an echo of measures ordered over the summer that led to a two-month lockdown of the entire city of 25 million that devastated its economy, prompting food shortages and rare confrontations between residents and the authorities.
At the start of the lockdown, authorities said it would last just days but then kept extending the deadline.
The Chinese regime has shown no sign of backing away from its hardline “zero-COVID” policy since a major congress of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) concluded this week by awarding leader Xi Jinping a third five-year term in power and packed top bodies with his loyalists….