(ANSA) – BEIJING, MAY 30 – Shanghai has confirmed the end of the anti-Covid lockdown of about 60 days from next June 1, in line with the program announced on May 16, thanks to a “situation back under control”. From midnight tomorrow, 6pm in Italy, Shanghai “will resume orderly access to residential neighborhoods, public transport operations and car traffic”, reads a note released on the city’s official WeChat account by local authorities. At present, “the pandemic situation has been effectively controlled and the situation continues to improve”.
Access to residential areas will be permitted unless subject to limitations or closures, while public transport “will resume functioning”, as well as taxi and on-call car services, always except for areas subject to restrictions or still deemed medium and high risk.
Shanghai recorded 67 cases in all of domestic transmission on Sunday, including 6 confirmed and 61 asymptomatic, according to data from the Local Health Commission, slipping for the first time to a double-digit increase in two months.
The city, the financial heart of China, has held its 26 million residents in a very strict lockdown, the heaviest since the Wuhan crisis over two years ago, with the freezing of production activities and the breakdown of the supply chain that reflected even globally.
The municipality has urged residents to use personal protections, the use of masks, social distancing and health self-monitoring: the instructions provided, however, present unclear aspects regarding the practical rules to follow, as in the case of the reopening of the offices, in the midst of the tests against Covid that will continue to be held in fact on a daily basis. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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