Tale of two cities as Shanghai goes into a slow-motion lockdown March 29, 2022 at 11:12PM

At home in Pudong district, on reduced pay and playing computer games to lift the gloom, 25-year-old Chinese engineer Terry is in the locked-down half of Shanghai. Across the Huangpu river which bisects the city, Maria is making the most of her diminishing freedom with dinners out before Friday when her side Puxi is also ordered indoors.