The Chinese city of Shanghai has begun to loosen its lockdown in some areas on Monday, despite recording a record of more than 25,000 new Covid-19 infections, as authorities scramble to get China’s commercial hub back up and running after more than two weeks.
Pressure has been mounting on officials in the most populous city and one of China’s wealthiest, with residents increasingly frustrated as restrictions drag on, leaving some struggling to find enough food and medicine.
Shanghai is grouping residential units into three risk categories as a step towards allowing “appropriate activities” in neighborhoods with no positive cases over a two-week period, municipal official Gu Honghui said.
“Each district will announce the specific names of the first batch (of communities) divided into the three types, and three subsequent lists will be announced at the appropriate time,” Gu told a news conference.
While it is unclear how many of the city’s 25 million people will have the lockdown immediately relaxed, the measure promises some relief for many confined for more than three weeks in a battle against the biggest outbreak in China since the coronavirus was first identified in Wuhan in late 2019.
A video, widely shared online, showed residents of a row of apartment blocks screaming and yelling from their windows.
“It’s good to finally get out, although there’s nowhere to go,” a resident who gave her last name as Qin told Reuters.
Source: CNN Brasil
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