However, thee vice-mayor of China’s economic capital, Chen Tong, did not specify whether he was talking about a gradual resumption of activity in the city, or whether he was conditioning this resumption on certain health criteria.
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Will the people of Shanghai see the end of the drastic confinement imposed for a month and a half by the authorities? The Chinese economic capital announced, Sunday, May 15, a reopening “progressive” businesses from Monday, when the inhabitants are more and more exasperated after a month and a half of confinement, since the beginning of April.
Shanghai Vice Mayor Chen Tong announced a reopening “in stages” shopping. However, he did not specify whether he was talking about a gradual resumption of activity in the city, or whether he was conditioning this resumption on certain health criteria.
Even if the decline in the number of cases seems to be underway (with 1,369 new positive cases on Sunday against more than 25,000 at the end of last month), in China, any lifting of restrictions is generally conditional on the “zero contamination in society”that is to say no new positive case for three days outside quarantine centers, under the so-called “zero Covid” strategy applied by Beijing.