Shanghai Gives Green Light for Key Manufacturers to Set Up Production Bubbles

Shanghai has issued a whitelist of manufacturers that could potentially resume operations — with workers in a strictly enforced bubble — as the city enters its fourth week of lockdowns that have disrupted industry there and farther afield.

It comes as authorities in the sprawling coastal finance and manufacturing hub scramble to bring the number of coronavirus cases among the general population to zero, and as many in the city still struggle to obtain fresh food.