Covid-19 lockdown anguish push expats to rethink living in China
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Women chatting over a barrier at a sealed area amid lockdown measures in Shanghai on June 16, 2022.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Faith Pang, Tan Dawn Wei
SINGAPORE/BEIJING - More than three months after Shanghai was put under lockdown to tamp down an outbreak of the Covid-19 Omicron variant that had raged through the city of 26 million, its foreign residents, including Singaporeans, have packed their bags and moved out or are looking for a way out.
In a flash survey just released by the Singapore Chamber of Commerce in China, a quarter of the 105 respondents said they will either move their families out of China or will leave the country completely. A third of the respondents were undecided.