In Pics | Life under lockdown in China

China's financial hub of Shanghai is under complete lockdown and people are struggling to meet their daily needs like food, water, medical care and other basic supplies. Parents have been forcibly separated from young children who contracted Covid-19. And public anger is regularly mounting, with no indication of when these coronavirus lockdown measures will ease. We take a peek into the daily life of the people in China under lockdown.

China's most populous city is under complete lockdown and is yet to give an indication of when lockdown measures will ease. Credit: Reuters Photo

A police officer wearing a protective suit keeps watch on a street in Shanghai. Credit: Reuters Photo

Shanghai has converted dozens of buildings into quarantine facilities that can house tens of thousands of positive cases. Credit: AFP Photo

Although Shanghai's case numbers remain small by global standards, the city has emerged as a testbed for China's

A man helps a woman consume a packet of traditional Chinese medicine, as she sits by the side of a road outside a residential compound, during a lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease in Shanghai. Credit: Reuters Photo

However, there are signs that transmission is still taking place in spite of the lockdowns. Of its 19,660 asymptomatic infections, 633 were not under quarantine or faced control measures, the data showed. Credit: AFP Photo

A worker wearing protective gear receives essentials from a delivery worker at the entrance of a compound during the second stage of a pandemic lockdown in Jing'an district in Shanghai. Credit: AFP Photo

A health worker prepares to conduct a swab test at a residential compound during the second stage of a pandemic lockdown in Jing'an district of Shanghai. Credit: AFP Photo

Workers and volunteers wearing PPE kits stand in a compound where residents are being tested for Covid-19 in Jing'an district. Credit: AFP Photo

People wearing personal protective gear are pictured at a gas station during the second stage of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in Jing'an district of Shanghai. Credit: AFP Photo

Health workers do the rounds during the second stage of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in Jing'an district of Shanghai. Credit: AFP Photo

A woman hangs clothes outside her apartment during the second stage of Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in Shanghai. Credit: AFP Photo

Workers in protective suits spray disinfectant to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease in Shanghai, China. Credit: Reuters Photo