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World Business Report: First broadcast 06/04/2022 14:32 GMT : Shanghai's Covid lockdown becomes city-wide

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Shanghai's Covid lockdown becomes city-wide

First broadcast 06/04/2022 14:32 GMT 

First broadcast 06/04/2022 14:32 GMT : Shanghai's Covid lockdown becomes city-wide

BBC World Service - World Business Report, Shanghai's Covid lockdown becomes city-wide

China's financial capital quarantines its 26 million residents

China has extended its lockdown in Shanghai to become city-wide. There is growing anger over what’s considered to be a particularly harsh lockdown. Brenda Goh, a journalist for Reuters in the city, tells us more. 
Ahead of the first round of voting in French presidential elections this weekend, we hear a special report from the BBC's Theo Leggett in France's industrial heartland in the east of the country about the issues affecting them. 
Also in the programme, about a third of users of the MTN mobile network in Nigeria can no longer make calls. It's because they missed a deadline to link their SIM cards to their National Insurance Identification. Nigerian journalist Endurance Okafor explains that it's linked to a new government regulation which it claims will increase security. 
And finally, the BBC's Mark Savage tells us more about Ed Sheeran's win in court.  The singer-songwriter has won a High Court battle in London over whether he copied another artist's song when he wrote his 2017, Shape of You.

(Photo: an empty Shanghai road, Credit: Future Publishing/Getty Images)

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