Local authorities announced a 7-day partial lockdown starting on July 6.

"Lockdown Mode" will come to Apple's iPhones, iPads, and Macs this fall, and turning it on will block most attachments sent to the iPhone's Messages app.

Residents line up for nucleic acid tests during a lockdown in Shanghai on April 16, 2022. (Aly Song/Reuters) Zhu Ling (pseudonym), a resident of Shanghai’s Putuo District, told The Epoch Times that the whole-city lockdown policy was shameless.

—A restaurant owner that defied COVID-19 lockdown orders amid the pandemic in 2020 is now being told by the state to close his doors for 30 days.

Two Alleged Deaths During the Lockdown Liang said that two people died during the lockdown. “People could not stand it, as conditions were really bad,” Liang said, “so people were protesting in the middle of the bridge every day.”

Against Lockdowns Shapps is the latest high-profile politician to come out against lockdowns.

But the balance between the costs and benefits of lockdowns swung towards costs long before governments were willing to lift them," the review said. "Many lockdowns were avoidable.

The legalization of cannabis and the COVID-19 lockdowns are likely to have contributed to increased cannabis use, according to a United Nations report.

Gavin Newsom’s emergency lockdown orders.

Some suggest that the fires could  have been set on purpose to conceal the dumping of (or spoiled) materials that couldn't be delivered during lockdown-induced transportation disruptions.

'Restriction and Control' Lois Perry, director of Car26, an organisation that is campaigning for a referendum on net zero and a pause in carbon-related regulations, told The Epoch Times that she believes the Oxford scheme is "a climate lockdown by default

Number 10 Downing Street instructed ministers on how to handle questions about the side-effects of lockdown. “The script was not to ever acknowledge them.

A new study has revealed how life was much harsher for Melbourne residents than in other parts of Australia, as the city was under the world's longest lockdowns of 262 days.

TOKYO—The mood among Japan's big manufacturers' soured for a second straight quarter in the three months to June, a central bank survey showed on Friday, hit by rising input costs and supply disruptions caused by China's strict COVID-19 lockdowns.

Zheng Hao said that Shanghai's current lockdown is "a total mess."

In August, a 17-month-old died in a hospital in the Yili City of Xinjiang due to a delay in medical treatment caused by the lockdown policies. Xinjiang has been under stringent lockdown since August amid a recent flare-up of the pandemic.

Businesses affected by Victoria’s infamous second lockdown may need to wait another three years for their class action lawsuit to be heard in court if a bid by the Victorian State government is successful.

"When China started to open back up after their lockdown in Q4, we went into lockdown here," Bower told The Epoch Times.

If they garner considerable support from the West, the COVID-19 protesters in China can bring down the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to anti-communist activist and researcher Trevor Loudon. “If the people on the ground in China have significant support from the West, they will carry this on and we could see the end of […]

Amid strict lockdown measures in China’s Xi'an city, a local reports that authorities struck his face with a brick for visiting his grandmother.

Wang (a pseudonym) told the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times on Oct. 9 that he'd started to stockpile food for the lockdown. “The [COVID] virus isn’t frightening, but the policies are,” he said.

During the lockdowns, grades were based on teachers’ assessment of how they thought students might perform based on work done in the online classroom.

Lin and his family were hoping for a nice family holiday together but are now stuck in the Chinese regime's lockdown in what has been a confronting trip.

Despite forcing 20 new areas into lockdown, Beijing authorities did not dare announce a city-wide lockdown, although most parts of the city were under lockdown.

Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, as well as academics who supported lockdown measures, have left behind a harmful legacy that Americans are still grappling with today, Atlas said.

Lam had previously said a citywide lockdown was unrealistic as certain groups still needed to go out and work during the epidemic.

Just one day later, Shanghai abruptly changed the course and announced a two-staged lockdown plan starting on March 28. What was initially promised to be an eight-day lockdown has extended to five weeks and counting.

Dong about the lingering effects of lockdowns—and how people could reverse those impacts.  Lockdown Impacts There are a number of studies that give us a snapshot of the physical impacts of the lockdowns on individuals’ health.

The continuous pandemic lockdown of Shanghai has caused various hardships for residents. People are starving from lack of food and patients are struggling to get necessary medical treatment.

Commentary If you’re finding the lockdown aggravating, allow me to assist. With the aggravation, I mean.