A CNN correspondent living in Shanghai said local authorities taped over his door to check if he left his home amid the city's stringent COVID-19 lockdown, reports Insider.
"I can't go outside that door, there's a seal. If I do, physically I could do it, but I would break the seal, and there's repercussions for that," said the outlet's international correspondent David Culver on Monday.
He added that he had to arrange for an escort if he wanted to leave his house to pick up food deliveries or the local government's grocery handouts.
Culver said he also had to ration his food supply because grocery delivery services and government food handouts have been choked up due to the citywide restrictions.
"If you think Wuhan 2020 was bad, welcome to Shanghai 2022," @David_Culver reports. "This has been like no other lockdown. And it's in the country's cosmopolitan and most affluent financial hub, of all places." pic.twitter.com/DQZHO0mvoy
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 11, 2022
"If you thought Wuhan 2020 was bad, welcome to Shanghai 2022," said Culver. "This has been like no other lockdown. And it's in the country's cosmopolitan and most affluent financial hub, of all places."
Shanghai, a city of 26 million residents, has been locked down since April 1, turning one of the world's busiest financial hubs into a ghost town.
In a firsthand account published the same day, Culver wrote that the government's grocery deliveries arrive once every few days and include items ranging from traditional Chinese medicine to pieces of vacuum-sealed pork. He added that the amount provided was not enough to feed even one person for a day.
Culver wrote that he had resorted to placing multiple grocery orders at the same time. when one delivery arrived at his front gate at midnight, he had to wait until 6 a.m. for the personnel overseeing his compound to retrieve it.
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