Food donations have been left rotting on sidewalks and in trash piles even as elites in China’s wealthiest city lay struggle to ensure their next meal.
Starving locals have taken to banging pots and pans from their balconies while screaming out demands for food.
From the quarantine centers, videos have emerged of people being locked in half-finished facilities with poor sanitary conditions. One of them showed dozens of people having to share a single clogged toilet.
Feelings of hunger, frustration, and desperation have been permeating Shanghai, a Chinese financial hub home to 26 million, after weeks of lockdown that the communist regime has insisted is key to containing the surging Omicron outbreak.
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