A man peers through an opening in a quarantine partition of a locked-down community in Shanghai on Monday. China’s financial hub is grappling with a new Covid-19 outbreak with 480 cases detected in all 16 districts over the past 10 days, including infections from the more transmissible omicron BA.5 subvariant. Photo: IC Photo

A man under quarantine holds a water pipe as seen through the opening in the partition on Tuesday. As of Thursday afternoon, the city has classified 14 areas as high-risk and 198 as medium-risk, with residents there stuck at home or barred from leaving their communities. Photo: IC Photo

A senior citizen looks out of an opening of her fenced-up community on Tuesday. Shanghai started a mandatory three days of mass nucleic acid tests in nine districts on the same day. Photo: IC Photo

A woman looks down the street through an opening Tuesday. Photo: IC Photo

A man reaches out to the garbage bin on Tuesday. Photo: IC Photo

Residents interact from either side of a partition separating a walled-off community Monday. Photo: IC Photo

A woman collects a package through the opening of a quarantine partition Tuesday. Photo: IC Photo

A man sells cages of crickets hung over a quarantine fencing barrier on Tuesday. Photo: IC Photo

Pedestrians walk past by a sealed-up community. Photo: IC Photo

Residents line up to get tested for Covid on Jiangyin Road on Friday. Photo: VCG