The city of Shanghai announced on Sunday a progressive reopening of shops from Monday, at a time of growing exasperation among the Chinese city’s inhabitants after many weeks of confinement.
China, faced with its worst outbreak of the epidemic since the first wave of 2020, At the beginning of April, he closed the door on this metropolis, the main source of contagion.
some of his 25 million inhabitants were already confined to their homes from before that date.
Exasperated by the problems of supplying fresh products, accessing medical care and sending infected people to quarantine centers, many residents have expressed their discomfort online.
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On Sunday, Shanghai Vice Mayor Chen Tong announced a reopening “by stages” from the shops from Monday, although without specifying how it would be carried out and what the conditions would be.
In China, the lifting of restrictions is generally conditional on eradicating infections in the population no longer record any positives for three days beyond isolated people in quarantine centers.
Shanghai authorities are confident of reaching this level by “mid-May”.
The epidemic is going down: on Sunday 1,369 new positive cases were registered in the city against more than 25,000 newspapers at the end of April.
More than 1,000 km to the north, the capital Beijing lives in fear of a confinement after the detection of more than a thousand cases since the end of April.
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The city has carried out massive tests on its inhabitants several times, has confined the buildings with positive cases and has closed subway stations and non-essential businesses in some neighborhoods.
To curb contagion, the Fangshan district, in the southwest of Beijing with 1.3 million inhabitants, suspended the circulation of taxis on Saturday.
But except for some confined areas, the vast majority of the 22 million Pekingese can still leave the house, although numerous public spaces are closed and many inhabitants are forced to telework.
