In early June, Shanghai emerged from a strict two-month citywide lockdown, in a country that has been going after a hard zero-Covid policy.
Although authorities claim life is back to normal, residents are adapting to some ‘new normal’ of frequent mass screening, contact tracing and small-scale community lockdowns to try to stamp out any Covid cases.
Many businesses are fighting and workers are usually feeling the effects.
If you are blind or partly sighted, the massage therapy industry is a crucial employment lifeline. Yet workers say the effects of lockdown and an insufficient government support are making life particularly difficult.
The BBC talked to one group regarding their plight.
Video clip by the BBC’s Shanghai team