{"id":4046,"date":"2022-07-20T16:38:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T16:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/07\/20\/shanghai-covid-lockdown-the-struggle-of-blind-massage-therapists\/"},"modified":"2022-07-20T16:38:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T16:38:29","slug":"shanghai-covid-lockdown-the-struggle-of-blind-massage-therapists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=4046","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Covid lockdown: The struggle of blind massage therapists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In early June, Shanghai emerged from a strict two-month citywide lockdown, in a country that has been pursuing a hard zero-Covid policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Though authorities claim life is back to normal, residents are adapting to a \u2018new normal\u2019 of frequent mass testing, contact tracing and small-scale community lockdowns to try to stamp out any Covid cases. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Many businesses are struggling and workers are feeling the effects. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">For those who are blind or partially sighted, the massage industry is a vital employment lifeline. But workers say the effects of lockdown and a lack of government support are making life particularly difficult. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The BBC spoke to one group about their plight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Video by the BBC\u2019s Shanghai team<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-62224790?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In early June, Shanghai emerged from a strict two-month citywide lockdown, in a country that has been pursuing a hard zero-Covid policy. Though authorities claim life is back to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}