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‘I still wake up at night in a panic’: Shanghai residents on lingering trauma from lockdown
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There is lingering trauma in Shanghai, where its 26 million residents were once confined to their homes during Covid-19 lockdown.
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SHANGHAI – Purchasing manager Vivian Liu, 28, first turned to a therapist online in May 2022, after she had been stuck in her Shanghai studio apartment for nearly two months.
With no certainty over when the Covid-19 forced isolation would lift, she was feeling increasingly anxious and helpless, worried that her food would run out.
