joining me from that lockdown in shanghai in cnn's david culver. be for us what this lockdown looks like and just remind people we are talking about china's richest most cosmopolitan, most international city, a city when you go to sort of dazzling skyscrapers and affluence. >> reporter: and it was at one time so vibrant, fareed, and has now come to a halt. it's really quite shocking to see. now, i'm coming to you from inside my home, i had for the past few weeks while still in lockdown was using my terrace to do some outside live reporting and fresh air. no longer are we allowed to use our outside patio, my door has once again been taped with a seal on t they don't want people opening their windows, they're trying to once again confine folks to their homes. this is after last week they had given folks that maybe there would be some sense of freedom and easing restrictions again, here we are, back to square one. this is to be candid like no other lockdown, i've covered wuhan and many in between right here in china. for a month there have been various

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joining me now in shanghai, cnn correspondent david culver. have tensions rising, fatigue and frustration also going up. it's seemingly endless can with this lockdown. i was reading through my neighbor's chat. that's how we communicate with our community liaison, the gate keeper, responsible for china's implementation strategy receiving orders from the top. in my own neighborhood there have been fights, tears. resident didn't asking a few hours ago, why are you dragging us out to another covid test? we've had the same number of pcr and antigen tests in the same period. the lockdown is tightening. anderson, you have fences going up. people in some parts of the city being caged in. more roads being barricaded this week. there are no real signs of any easing of this lockdown, and even when the government now tries to reassure that there is a road map out of this, people are no longer buying it. anderson, there is a major credibility issue with officials now. >> so, wait, can you leave your house, your apartment? >> so, i can technically leave wit

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david culver joins me live from shanghai.s week and they were taping your doors at night to make sure you weren't getting out. you were doing group orders with your neighbors. how is life under lockdown now a few days later? >> yeah, don, it's still relatively difficult to get the reliable source of food. in my community because we haven't had a new case in the past seven days, it does mean we have a little freedom in that mid-tier of categories they've created. it's nice to shut the door behind me even if it's a couple alleyways. some people are still under the harshest level of lockdown, and they want to determine what lockdown level we're into, and if there are no cases nearby, what your release date is. it's like prison, don. >> so you reported this mounting pressure on the government to lift these lockdowns. what does that look like in china, and will that make any change? >> so, generally here in the people's republic of china, there is just social acceptance, right, of government policy that will go mostly unopposed. a

shanghai cnn correspondent david culver. porter: bluntly it's a real mess right now, anderson. you've got tensions rising. fatigue and frustration also going up. it's seemingly endless with the lockdown. i was reading through nigh neighbor as group chat how we have to communicate with each other. that's how we communicate community with our community liaison. the gaitkeeper. each kmount responsible for the zero covid strategy receiving orders from the top. in my neighborhood there have been fights, tears, residents asking a few hours ago why are you dragging us out to another daily covid test? mind you in the past 43 days my community has been locked down we've had roughly the same number of pcr and ant ijen tests in that period. the lockdown is tightenenings. fences going up. people in parts of the city caged in. more roads being barricaded this week. there are no signs of any easing of this lockdown. and even when the government now tries to reassure that there is a road map out of this people are no longer buying it. ander

cnn's david culver is in shanghai following other signs of progress and frustration in the city. shanghai residents. strolling their own neighborhoods as if taking in some strange new world. >> where are you going to go? there's nowhere to go! >> reporter: no hoshops, still closed. public transportation halted. still, this woman can't hold back her joy as they roam empty streets. after forcing 25 million people into weeks of harsh lockdown, government officials facing mounting pressure lifted some restrictions. for communities like mine without a positive case in the last seven days, that meant we could step outside our apartments. my neighbors enjoying the taste of relative freedom. so too our pets, eager to stretch their legs. still, keeping within the confines of our compound. the extent of my freedom is all the way to here. the compound gate. still double locked. it's been like that about a month. in recent weeks we had to get community permission to leave our homes. mostly for covid tests of which there were many. we could also step outside to pick up the occasional governme

david culver is out front, and i want you to know he is part of the only american detetv crew lg through for food. we are starving, we are starving they yell. as weeks' long covid lockdown with no promised end, desperation. one community volunteer reporting the home of an elderly woman. she says neighbors heard the 90-year-old shouting help for three days pleading for food, her fridge empty. volunteers were finally able to get her a meal. china's central government now in charge of managing shanghai's covid outbreak. in a month's time, the daily case count went from double-digits to more than 26,000. a shanghai city leader choked up at a news conference over the weekend apologizing to shanghai's more than 25 million residents for failing to meet expectations and promising improvements. those of us living here kept to our homes. cnn, the only u.s. tv network with a team living through the lockdown. in my community, we're only allowed out when summoned by workers using a megaphone and when dark out, a flashlight. >> getting a late evening now request to go get a covid test. my neighbors an

cnn's david culver has more from shanghai where he's been documenting life under these strict measuresf freedom granted to some shanghai resident, strolling their own neighborhoods as if taking in some strange new world. >> where are you going go? there's nowhere to go. >> reporter: most shops still closed and public transportation halted. still, this woman can't hold back her joy, as she and her neighbors roam the empty streets. after forcing 25-plus million people into weeks of harsh lockdown, government officials facing mounting pressure lifted some restrictions. for communities like mine without a positive case in the last seven days, that meant we could actually step outside our apartment. my neighbors enjoying the taste of relative freedom and so, too, our pets, eager to stretch their legs, still keeping within the confines of our compound. the extent of my freedom is all the way to here, the compound gate. still double locked. it's been like that for about a month. in recent weeks, we had to get community permission to leave our homes, mostly for covid tests, of which there were

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david culver has details. >> reporter: test positive for covid-19 in shanghai, and chinese officialsthere is space. >> there is nowhere for them to send me. i am not allowed to go in the hospital and i have to stay here. >> reporter: american josh vaughn taken in early april to a pop-up tent outside a shanghai hospital. >> this is supposed to be like a nice hospital and this -- this is where i was sleeping tonight. >> reporter: china's zero-covid policy requires every positive case and close contact to be isolated in the city inundated with an omic roin-fueled surge that began in early march, that has been a scramble to build makeshift isolation centers. the government evicting some residents from their homes, so their apartments can be turned into quarantine facilities. people living in mainland china's most international city, frustrated by the city's admittedly mangled and chaotic execution of mass lockdown efforts. for ex-pats, it is even more difficult. >> about 12 days ago, there is no way i am still positive. >> reporter: this recording widely shared on social media, appearing

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cnn's david culver is living through the lockdown with shanghai's 25 million residents.'d never expect to see people in shanghai, china's most affluent and cosmopolitan city, screaming for food. "we are starving," they yell. but after weeks-long covid lockdown with no promised end, desperation. one community volunteer recording the home of an elderly woman. she says neighbors heard the 90-year-old shouting "help" for three days, pleading for food. her fridge empty. volunteers were finally able to get her a meal. china's central government now in charge of managing shanghai's covid outbreak. in a month's time, the daily case count went from double digits to more than 26,000. a shanghai city leader choked up at a news conference over the weekend, apologizing to shanghai's more than 25 million residents for failing to meet expectations and promising improvements. those of us living here kept to our homes. cnn the only u.s. tv network with a team living through the lockdown. in my community, we're only allowed out when summoned by workers using a megaphone and when dark out,

cnn's david culver looks at the tense situation there, as china doubles down on its zero-covid policyhai resident pushing back after nearly three weeks of lockdown. these videos circulating on social media show people confronting police for being forced from homes. these are not people with covid-19, but rather people whose apartments are being turned into government facilities to surp surge with the covid cases. chinese officials vow to send every positive case of covid-19 and any close contact to government quarantine, no matter the age. here, you see an elderly man shuffling towards a group of other senior scitizens, some in their 90s, most in wheelchairs transferred from this iets lagz city after testing positive. video shared from inside another center shows elderly patients seemingly unattended. cots set up in halls with wooden boards and thin sheets as bedding. since the start of the outbreak in early march, more than 400,000 cases have been reported in the city according to china's health commission. and more than 25 million people are still in strict lockdown. cnn's been livi

one of those our own david culver.life under lockdown is like. >> reporter: a few steps of freedom granted to some shanghai residents, strolling their own neighborhoods as if taking in some strange new world. >> where are you going to go? there's nowhere to go? >> reporter: no shops, still closed, and public transportation halted. still, this woman can't hold back her joy, recording as she and her neighbors roamed the empty streets. after putting 45 plus million people into weeks of lockdowns, government officials facing mounted pressure lifted some restrictions. for communities like mine without a positive case in the last seven days, that meant we could actually step outside our apartments. my neighbors enjoying the taste of relative freedom, and so, too, our pets, eager to stretch their legs, still keeping within the confines of our compound. the extent of my freedom is all the way to here, the compound gate. still double locked. it's been like that for about a month. in recent weeks we had to get community permissi

cnn's david culver is in lockdown in shanghai. china's censorship efforts have gone into overdrive. own national anthem? >> this is remarkable. the first line in particular, jake, of the national anthem, the words rise those who don't want to be enslaved, initially directed towards foreign oppressors, but on social media, folks here who are suffering amidst this lockdown started using it against their own government. so those lines now censored. what was really shocking to witness over the weekend, jake, was this rare digital uprising on social media. it involved a six-minute video called voices of april. i think we can show you some of it as well. the clip uses grayed out drone footage of shanghai and includes voices of people's desperation in the city over the past several weeks. it highlights a shared misery and a helplessness. the video points to dysfunction, mismanagement, what many here see as a city in chaos. and it resonated with so many this weekend who really just feel trapped, so they in turn went to china's heavily controlled internet to vent. they shared the video so qu

david culver, thank you. >>> cnn is learning in beijing the government is launching mass testing for city's largest districts. this comes after just 11 new covid cases were detected in the past 24 hours. on monday beijing authorities will roll out three rounds of pcr testing followed by two more wednesday and friday. >>> coming up, a movement demanding more worker's rights at amazon is gunning for its second major victory this week. we're live on staten island where union organizers hope to keep the momentutum going and a big vote tomorrow. where... ♪ pop rock music ♪ >> tech: ...so he brought it to safelite. we repeplaced the windshield and recalilibrated their car's advanced safety system, so features like automatic emergency braking will work properly. >> tech: alright, all finished. >> dad: wow, that's great. thanks. >> tech: stay safe with safelite. schedule now. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ way day, wayfair's biggest sale of the year is bigger than ever! for two days only, april 27th and 28th, get the lowest prices on thousands of items for your home. shop

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cnn's david culver is in shanghai. strengthening strategic cooperation. what does that even mean?till oddly trying to portray themselves as a mutual peacemaker with regards to russia's invasion of ukraine. so this strategic coordination, it builds on the joint statement that president putin and president xi jinping put out just before the start of the beijing olympics. before russia's invasion of ukraine. and in that joint statement, they describe the two countries as having a no-limits relationship. china's vice foreign minister reinforced this on monday to russia's ambassador to china saying that, regardless of how the international landscape may change, china and russia will coordinate to achieve win-win cooperation. we know that xi and putin share this ideological aliegeiance, though for coming reasons, china has had to play both sides so as not to cut off its largest trading partners, particularly the eu and the u.s. >> help me understand, could china play an indirect role in supporting russia in this war? >> in many ways, they already are. officials here cited a nearly 30% i

here is cnn's david culver. >> reporter: the determination to contain this virus, leading to disturbing crews installing steel fences inside residential compounds to prevent people in buildings with reported positive cases from getting out, essentially caging them in. many raising the obvious fire hazard concerns. in other communities like mine, we've got a paper seal on the door and there's a community covid guard on duty 24/7 to make sure we don't wander out of our homes without permission. on the streets here, workers also putting up blockades, trying to keep people from traveling to other districts. this latest omicron-fueled surge has the city now reporting more than 500,000 cases since the start of this outbreak in early march. and there's now concern growing outside of shanghai, especially up in beijing. only double digit case numbers were reported so far, but it's concerning enough for one of the capital city's largest districts to require its 3 million residents to get three rounds of pcr tests this week. authorities have locked down dozens of residential compounds across eight

cnn's david culver looks at china doubling down on the zero covid policy. >> shanghai residents pushinghree weeks of lockdown. these videos show people coming out of their homes. these are people whose apartments are being turned into government quarantine facilities to cope with surging covid cases. the rising tensions come as chinese officials vaugh to send every positive case of covid-19 and any close contact to government quarantine no matter the age. here you see an elderly man shuffling towards a group of other senior citizens. some in their 90s. most in wheelchairs transferred from their nursing home to this isolation facility after testing positive. video from inside another center shows elderly patients left unattended. cots set up in the halls with thin sheets as bedding. since the start of this outbreak, more than 4,000 cases have been reported in the city. most in this met tropp poe lis are still in strict lockdown. cnn's been living through it. we've mostly been sealed inside our homes let out for mandatory covid tests and the distribution of groceries. last week we had a b

cnn's david culver is there. >> reporter: you never expect to see people in shanghai, china's most affluent, screaming for food. we are starving, we are starving, they yell. but after weeks-long covid lockdown with no promised end, desperation. one community volunteer recording the home of an elderly woman. she said neighbors heard the woman shouting help for three days, pleading for food. her fridge? empty. volunteers were finally able to get her a meal. china's central government now in charge of managing shanghai's covid outbreak. in a month's time the case load went from double digits to more than 26,000. a shanghai expert promised for improvements. those living here kept to their homes. cnn was the only team living through the lockdown. my community were only allowed out when summoned by workers using a megaphone. and when dark out, a flashlight. >> a late evening request for a covid test. >> my workers and i line up, waiting for them to scan our cards. we can also leave the house to line up for government distributions or to get approved deliveries, usually the most exciting part of t

david culver is among those forced into lockdown in shanghai. can't stand it. they're running out of food. it sounds just awful. >> reporter: and jake, the videos emerging from across the city, they say it all. i'll pause here. you can listen to the frustration and anger and pain that is being evoked. [ yelling ] >> reporter: people sealed inside their homes. this has been like no other lockdown. the scale alone of the population here puts this beyond wuhan in 2020. and most shocking is that this is happening here in the city's cosmopolitan and affluent hub. the door behind me, that's my exit to the alley. a couple nights ago i heard them taping my door, placing a paper seal to keep it closed. some buildings with positive cases, they're actually locked from the outside with a bicycle lock or even pad locks. this has gone on for more than three weeks that has led to massive food shortages and it is really difficult to source basic necessities. you have doors closed. delivery drivers like us are also in lockdown. neighbors are coming together. they

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let's hear first-hand from cnn's david culver, who is in shanghai. here. you report that people in shanghai are essentially caged into their homes and neighborhoods now. what's up? >> reporter: hey, don. yeah, i thought the paper seal that was taped on our door was strange this has gone to a whole other level this week. and we have that video. the fences, the barricades, what you were describing there, being put up inside residential compounds, folks essentially being caged in. they feel trapped. i think we even have video of this one woman here, you can see how frustrated she is and seems like this is being repeated throughout the city, we could point out. she kicks open one of the fences. and adding these new barriers, it suggests just a desperate attempt to contain this virus, but don, it's not going over well amongst most living here. >> yeah. we've been talking the last few weeks or so, as you yourself have been living through this lockdown, and i just want to show everyone some of your reporting from your own home so that they can see what you

cases they do remain fairly high and millions are still under a strict lockdown, including cnn's david culver who has more from shanghai. >> reporter: lockdown in china is like nowhere else on earth. here you see a man getting swabbed for a covid test through the fence. using a megaphone, health care workers call for others to get tested. the country's zero covid strategy? turning millions in to virtual prisoners across the nation. outside of beijing, these residents forced to hand over their apartment keys so community workers can lock them in from the outside. for those who refuse, crews drill holes to kchain the doors shut. in the northeastern province, no need for a lock, workers installing steel bars to keem people from leaving the building. right now, across china, 27 cities are under full or partial lockdown, cnn's calculation estimating that directly impacts up to 180 million people. more than half the u.s. population. for over two years now, china's covid containment has been more extreme. fracturing every day life, a city not under lockdown, babies kept off the subway. the reason? t

i want to bring in cnn's david culver. g to this pushback, david. >> reporter: let's hope, john. at least in words. you and i were talking two and a half years ago in the wuhan lockdown at that time was the most pressing issue. if you think wuhan 2020 was bad, welcome to shanghai 2022. this has been like no other lockdown. it's in the cosmopolitan financial hub. this is the exit to my ally way. i heard them last night taping up my door, along with the doors of my neighbors, keeping a paper seal to keep it closed. some positive cases inside are locked shut from the outside. using padlocks and bicycle locks to keep people in. it is difficult to source food with delivery drives also knocked down. neighbors are coming to try to source directly super suppliers. they buy-in bulk. some government handouts has not been enough. but some are demanding supplies. they are coming together. some in protest. the food shortages have worsened. some shouted, we are starving. we are starving. a leader choked up over the weekend apologizing to

david culver has the latest from shanghai. >> reporter: shanghai officials say the lockdown will remaine until community spread of covid-19 is eliminated. adding that they're at a critical stage in its fight against the spread. the government figures reflected a gradual decrease in the number of cases this past week. but harsh restrictions, we're still dealing with them. more than 16 million residents are still banned from leaving our doors and neighborhoods. as the city vows to adhere to beijing's zero covid policy. daily pcr tests conducted for more than 11.8 million residents. those residents not in strict lockdown are allowed to leave, but they're mostly limited to just going to the grocery store, then you have to go back home. authorities want to round up all positive cases and close contacts of covid-19, and all those individuals will be sent to quarantine facilities. >>> it's a case that has been captivating the world for almost 15 years now. madeleine mccann disappeared during a family vacation in portugal back in 2007 when she was only 3 years old. investigators were in the dar

david culver reports. >> reporter: lockdown in china is like nowhere else on earth.n getting swapped for a covid test through the fence. health care workers call for others to get tested through a mega phone. the company's zero covid strategy turning millions into virtual prisoners across the nation. in beijing, these residents forced to hand over apartment keys so community workers can lock them in from the outside. for those who refuse, crews drill holes to chain the door shut. in northeast province, no need to have a lock, workers installing steel bars to keep people from leaving. cnn is estimating up to 180 million people are impacted. more than half the u.s. population. for over two years now, china's covid containment has become more extreme. fracturing everyday life. in a city not under lockdown, babies kept off the subway. the reason, they didn't have negative covid test results. it's now mandatory to get access to most of public life in the city. to accommodate the rule they opened 24/7 testing sites. a delayed test result had this groom watching his own wed

daily-case counts do remain fairly high and millions are still under a strict lockdown, including cnn's david culver see a man getting swabbed for a covid test through the fence. using a megaphone, healthcare workers call for others to get tested. the countrs zero-koe vid strategy turning millions into virtual prisoners across the nation. outside beijing, these residents forced to hand over their apartment keys so counity workers can lock tm in from the outside. for those who wrefuse, crews drill holes to chain the doors shut. in the north aen province, no need for a lock. workers installing steel bars to keep people from leaving the building. right now across china, at least 27 cities are under full or partial lockdown. cnn's calculation estimating that directly impacts up to 180 million people -- more than half the u.s.' population. for over two years anyway, china's covid containment has become more extreme. fracturing everyday life. in shenzhen, a city not under lockdown, babies kept off the subway. the reason? they didn't have negative-covid test results. it is now mandatory to get access to mo

david culver reports from shanghai where he along with millions of other chinese citizens remain underlike nowhere else on earth. here you see a man getting swabbed for a covid test through the fence. using a megaphone, healthcare workers call for others to get tested. the country's zero covid strategy, turning millions into virtual prisoners across the nation. outside of beijing, these residents forced to hand over their apartment keys so community workers can lock them in from the outside. for those who refuse, crews drill holes to chain the doors shut. in northeastern province, no need for a lock. workers installing steel bars to keep people from leaving the building. right now across china, at least 27 cities are under full or partial lockdown. cnn's calculation estimating that directly impacts up to 180 million people. more than half the u.s. population. for over two years now, china's covid containment has become more extreme. fracturing every day life. in shen gin, babies kept off the subway. the reason, they didn't have negative covid test results. it's now monandatory to get a

or reporter david culver is in the country himself, stuck in his apartment, living through it all. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (music throughout) >>> 50 new cases. lockdowns continue in shanghai with more than 10,000 new cases reported today. china's strict covid lockdowns affecting many. cnn's david caldwell who's in shanghai under lockdown himself has the details. >> reporter: the call before the storm. beijing residents are stocking up bracing for a potential onslaught of covid cases. 20 million people getting tested three times this week alone. cnn is in the capital city. >> it does not affect daily lives. these people taking a lunch test and back to work. >> reporter: the horror story from the financial hub a shock to many across china. >> you are seeing at least on the surface of orderly and kind of organized effort andover stocking super markets are still open. >> reporter: open for now. residents know how quickly it can all change. some beijing communities are in lockdown. people sealed in and a taste of what life is like for most of shanghai. >> reporter: nearly one month of hard lockdown a

has minimum negative impact on china's social development but come on, the reality is different, david culvere only crew living through the city's harsh lockdown. >> reporter: lockdown in china is like nowhere else in earth. here you see a man getting swab said through a covid test through the fence, using a mega-phony, healthcare workers call for others to get tested. the country's zero covid strategy, turning millions into virtual prisoners across the nation. outside of beijing, these residents forced to hand over their apartment keys so community workers can lock them in from the outside. for those who refuse, crews drill holes to chain the doors shut. in northeastern province, no need for a lock, workers install steel bars to keep people leaving the building. right now across china, at least 27 cities under full or partial lockdown, cnn calculation estimating that directly impacts up to 180 million people, more than half the u.s. population. for over two years now, china's covid containment has become more extreme. fracturing everyday life. in shenjen, babies kept off the subway, the reas

david culver as, you know, is part of the only american television crew living through the harsh lockdowninese censors do not want you to see or share, sparked a ridge it w , unrising this weekend, with uneasiness across shanghai. video points at disfunction, mismanagement, a city in chaos struggling to cope with a surge in covid cases, resonates with so many of shanghai's 20 million residents feeling trapped turning to the most popular chinese communication platforms webo and wi chat to event, amongst government-controlled internet with any dissent quickly suppressed and erases, china's censors over the weekend were able to keep up, no sooner they blocked one version of the video did another resurface, some versions even disguised as qr codes to throw off the censors, online rattling of all the stability was a growing rejection of china's harsh covid containment measures. some even sharing this clip from the 2012 movie lemiz referencing a 19th century uprising in paris, the censors swiftly clamped down, but the users taking aim at the censorship itself, its own officials claiming china's