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Zhengzhou in China is the latest city to enforce an effective lockdown for six million residents to quell a swelling Covid-19 outbreak.

It comes after China recorded its highest number of daily Covid cases since the pandemic began. Wednesday saw 31,527 cases recorded compared with an April peak of 28,000.

Thomas Hale is a correspondent for the Financial Times in Shanghai. He told Newsday: 鈥淚 swiped into a bar where someone tested positive and I was taken away in the night a few days later and it was a鈥� temporary portacabin style facility. There were a few hundred cabins there, they were a bit like shipping containers. There was no hot water, no shower and in pretty basic conditions鈥� that鈥檚 the reality for a lot of people across China currently.鈥�

(Picture: Shows people in personal protective equipment guarding a residential compound under lockdown due to Covid-19 coronavirus restrictions in Beijing on November 25, 2022. Credit: Jade GAO / AFP via Getty Images.)