Shanghai has started part two of its phased lockdown on Friday, confining some 16 million people living in the western part of the city to their homes after ending a four-day lockdown of the eastern half. While many Covid patients have died in recent days at a large Shanghai elderly-care hospital, though the government hasn’t officially reported any such fatalities, according to the Wall Street Journal. The spread of Covid to Shanghai is the biggest test yet for President Xi Jinping’s goals of eliminating the virus while minimising the economic and social impacts of a Covid Zero strategy.