Shanghai vents lockdown fury online

SHANGHAI: Videos of a pet dog killed in the name of Covid-19 controls, expletive-strewn songs aimed at Communist authorities and scuffles with hazmat-suited officials — seething, locked-down Shanghai residents are pouring scorn on China's hardline virus measures through social media.

The world's most populous country is glued to an aggressive "zero-Covid" strategy, with Beijing extracting political value from China's relatively low death rates since the pandemic began and gloating over its handling of the coronavirus compared to Western rivals.