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Shanghai lockdown: Residents demand release, and some get it

A notice for quarantine is posted outside a store in Shanghai, China, Friday, May 27, 2022. Residents in China's largest city of Shanghai have become bolder in demanding the lifting or easing of coronavirus restrictions that have left millions locked up in their compounds for almost two months. (AP Photo/Andrew Braun) Workers in protective gear rest on the street of Shanghai on Friday, May 27, 2022. Residents in China's largest city of Shanghai have become bolder in demanding the lifting or easing of coronavirus restrictions that have left millions locked up in their compounds for almost two months. (AP Photo/Andrew Braun) A rider past by helmets and plastics thrown out by workers at a construction site who also sprayed unknown gas to protest their continued quarantine in Shanghai on Friday, May 27, 2022. Residents in China's largest city of Shanghai have become bolder in demanding the lifting or easing of coronavirus restrictions that have left millions locked up in their compounds for almost two months. (AP Photo/Andrew Braun) A police officer checks on a vehicle passing through a police checkpoint in Shanghai on Friday, May 27, 2022. Residents in China's largest city of Shanghai have become bolder in demanding the lifting or easing of coronavirus restrictions that have left millions locked up in their compounds for almost two months. (AP Photo/Andrew Braun) Residents gather near the entrance of their compound to demand clarity on when their residential compound would open up in Jingan district in Shanghai on May 25, 2022. Residents in China's largest city of Shanghai have become bolder in demanding the lifting or easing of coronavirus restrictions that have left millions locked up in their compounds for almost two months. (AP Photo) Residents confront a representative about opening up of their compound in Jingan district in Shanghai on May 25, 2022. Residents in China's largest city of Shanghai have become bolder in demanding the lifting or easing of coronavirus restrictions that have left millions locked up in their compounds for almost two months. (AP Photo) In this photo taken on May 24, 2022 and released by Weronika Truszczynska, residents of a compound banded together to complain to their community about opening up in Shanghai. Residents in China's largest city of Shanghai have become bolder in demanding the lifting or easing of coronavirus restrictions that have left millions locked up in their compounds for almost two months. (Weronika Truszczynska via AP) Residents wearing masks rest in the shade near a graffiti of a dragon, Friday, May 27, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) Residents wearing masks line up for mass COVID test, Friday, May 27, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) A resident gets swabbed during mass COVID test, Friday, May 27, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) A resident leaves from a mass COVID test site, Friday, May 27, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)