Frustration grows in Shanghai, China amid harsh coronavirus lockdowns

Frustration is simmering in Shanghai, as residents grow dissatisfied with weeks of a strict coronavirus lockdown.

On Chinese social media, web users fought Saturday to share a six-minute video clip called April’s Voice.

The footage showed a panorama of the city’s empty streets, while also the voices of local residents complaining about the lack of food and medicine that plagued the city.

Shanghai recently reported 12 COVID-19 deaths yesterday.

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Workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) walk on a street next to an apartment building during the Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown in Shanghai's Jing'an District on April 23, 2022. — Residents of Shanghai, China, complained of food shortages as authorities imposed a strict lockdown.

Officers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) stand on a street during the Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown in the Jing'an District of Shanghai on April 23, 2022. — Shanghai residents are reportedly receiving limited food and medical rations.

A tired medical worker sits along an empty street in Shanghai, China.

Residents conduct a mandatory COVID-19 test in Shanghai, China on April 22, 2022.

However, netizens faced opposition from China’s army of internet censors, who fought all morning to remove the video. Some comments, I managed to stay.

“I can only say that if you don’t want to even hear a small amount of real voices, it’s really hopeless,” said one frustrated social media user.

The city has faced a brutal lockdown in an effort to stem the latest wave of the coronavirus. Shanghai recorded 12 new deaths from the coronavirus on Friday. The average age of the victims was 88 and none of them had been vaccinated.