China slowly lifts COVID-19 curbs in return to normal

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The Chinese commercial hub of Shanghai aims to essentially end from Wednesday a lockdown that has severely damaged the economy.

| Shanghai announced on Sunday further steps towards returning to more normal life and lifting a two-month COVID-19 lockdown this week, while Beijing reopened parts of its public transport, some malls, gyms and other venues as infections stabilised.and seen many Shanghai residents lose income, struggle to source food and to cope mentally with prolonged isolation.Bloomberg

“The current epidemic situation in the city continues to stabilise and improve,” Mr Yin said, adding Shanghai’s strategy was now “pivoting towards normalised prevention and control”.People entering public venues or taking public transport will need to show a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours, versus 48 hours previously.

The authorities approved 240 financial institutions in the city for reopening from Wednesday, state-runreported on Sunday, adding to a list of 864 firms released earlier this month. That is out of Shanghai’s roughly 1700 financial firms.The newspaper said on Saturday that the more than 10,000 bankers and traders who have been living and working in their offices since the start of lockdown were gradually returning home.

The districts of Fangshan and Shunyi will end work-from-home rules, while public transport will largely resume in the two districts as well as in Chaoyang, the city’s largest. Still, restaurant dining remains banned city-wide.

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