on thursday li said he had only water all day the local government office clearly said that they didnt care about those staying in the hotel and left us to find our own way li said what we need most now is supplies food after residents of a shanghai apartment complex stood on their balconies to sing this week in a possible protest a drone flew overhead and broadcast the message control the souls desire for freedom and do not open the window to sing this behavior has the risk of spreading the epidemic the government says it is trying to reduce the impact of its tactics but authorities still are enforcing curbs that also block access to the industrial cities of changchun and jilin with millions of residents in the northeast while the shanghai ports managers say operations are normal the chair of the citys chapter of the european chamber of commerce in china bettina schoenbehanzin said its member companies estimate the volume of cargo handled has fallen 40 some large factories and financial firms are having employees sleep at work to keep operating but schoenbehanzin said with no timetable to end lockdowns some workers arent volunteering any more residents of smaller cities also have been confined temporarily to their homes this year as chinese officials try to contain outbreaks in 2020 access to cities with a total of 60 million people was suspended in an unprecedented attempt to contain the outbreak the ruling party organized vast supply networks to bring in food a resident of the minhang district on shanghais west side who asked to be identified only by her surname chen said her household of five was given government food packages on march 30 and april 4 they included chicken eggplant carrots broccoli and potatoes now vegetables are available online but meat fish and eggs are hard to find chen said she joined a neighborhood buying club minimum orders are 3000 yuan 500 so you need other people she said everyone is organizing to order food because we cant count on the government to send it to us chen said theyre not reliable a message from a viewer of an online news conference by the citys health bureau challenged officials put down the script please tell leaders to buy vegetables by mobile phone on the spot gregory gao an operations specialist for an automaker who lives alone in the downtown yangpu district said only meituan remains after food sellers said supply sites in the area were closing i cant get anything for two or three days in a row said gao 29 zhang said some of her neighbors have run out of rice the government told us at the beginning this would last four days she said many people were not prepared