Locked-down Shanghai residents scramble to find food

City hauls out rations as online delivery services grind to a halt

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Workers wearing protective gear sort bags of vegetables and groceries on a truck to distribute them to residents at a residential compound in Shanghai. The city has been under lockdown for over a week. © Reuters

CK TAN, Nikkei staff writer

SHANGHAI -- Authorities in locked-down Shanghai are scrambling to distribute rations to millions of residents as food and other key supplies run short in the midst of China's biggest COVID-19 shutdown since the pandemic began.

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