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Residents have been barred from leaving their homes even for essential items, leaving many warning they are running out of food as shops and delivery services collapse under the pressure and government deliveries of vegetables, meat and eggs struggle to keep up.
"It is true there are some difficulties in ensuring the supply of daily necessities," local official Liu Min conceded on Wednesday.
It comes after a government worker was filmed chasing down a Corgi and beating it to death with a shovel because its owner was infected, in a horrifying video that went viral on Weibo.
The owner had released the dog onto the streets because he could not find anyone to care for it while he was in quarantine, China News Weekly reported.
"We hoped to let him outside and be like a stray dog," he wrote on Weibo.
"We didn't want him to starve to death. As long as he could live it would be okay. We never expected that he would be beaten to death the moment we had left."
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The citywide lockdown is indefinite.
"The situation in Shanghai is scary," Michael Smith, North Asia correspondent for The Australian Financial Review, wrote on Twitter.
"Reports of millions struggling to feed themselves, elderly unable to access medicine, videos of small riots breaking out circulating on social media. Many households relying on inadequate government food deliveries. All this to contain a virus the Chinese government claims hasn't killed anyone in the city yet."
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He added, "For my family, we had three deliveries that were booked to deliver today: two group purchases of meat/seafood plus one individual purchase of soap and shampoo. All three were cancelled."
Nelson said that on Friday night, several Covid-positive people from his community had been taken to a quarantine centre.
"From what we've heard, they didn't arrive until 2am and the conditions there are awful — no showers, portable toilets only, no hot water, and of course no privacy," he wrote.
China is one of the few nations still persisting with a zero Covid strategy, even though its full vaccination rate is approaching 90 per cent.
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