China heatwave: Shanghai workers swelter in 40C heat

China heatwave: Shanghai workers swelter in 40C heat

China is experiencing sweltering summer high temperature with dozens of metropolitan areas across the country having released extreme weather warnings for temperatures more than 40C.

One of those is Shanghai, which is still a concentrate for China’s Absolutely no Covid strategy.

BBC Information went out onto the streets of the city to find out how people were coping.