WORLD NEWS: China began locking down most of its largest city of Shanghai from Monday to curb an Omicron-driven Covid outbreak.In the second phase of the lockdown, the vast downtown area west of the Huangpu River that divides the city will then start its own five-day lockdown from Friday. Residents will be required to stay home and deliveries will be left at checkpoints to ensure there is no contact with the outside world. China has reported more than 56,000 infections nationwide this month, with a surging outbreak in the northeastern province of Jilin accounting for most of them. Shanghai has had relatively few of those cases, with just 50 cases recorded on Monday.
