In Shanghai, images of workers in white hazmat suits sealing entrances of housing blocks and closing off entire streets with green fencing - roughly roughly two metres tall - went viral on social media.
Shanghai erected metal barriers in multiple districts to block off streets. In the city's financial district, Pudong, the barriers - thin metal sheets or mesh fences - were put up in several.
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