Its Principles Shanghai Allowed another 4 million people to leave their homes on Wednesday as severe coronation measures in China’s largest city eased and some factories resumed operations.
A total of almost 12 million people in the city of 25 million can now leave their homes after the first round of relaxation last week, a health official told a news conference, noting that the virus was “under effective control” for the first time in some places. city’s.
THE Shanghai imposed an extensive lockdown restricting most of the population from March 28. Strict measures provoked unprecedented tensions and lack of access to food and medicine.
The multi-day lockdown has caused intense fears for the global economy. Official figures show that economic activity in the first three months of this year fell compared to the last quarter of 2021.
The number of cases in China is relatively low, but the government is imposing a “zero tolerance” strategy on COVID, excluding large cities to isolate each case.
On Wednesday, the government reported 19,927 new cases in mainland China, all but 2,761 of which had no symptoms. Shanghai accounted for 95% of the total, or 18,902 cases, of which only 2,495 had symptoms.
The government said 26,760 people who tested positive but had no symptoms were released on Wednesday.
The closure of other major industrial and commercial centers, such as Changchun, Jilin and Shenyang in the northeast, Tianjin port in the east of Beijing and Shenzhen and Guangzhou in the south, has forced global automakers and other manufacturers to reduce or stop production because their suppliers could not deliver.
Volkswagen AG announced this week that its Changchun plant had resumed production and the automaker was considering when to reopen its Shanghai plant. BMW AG has announced that it has reopened its plant in Shenyang.
According to the latest changes, the status of the areas with more than 4 million people has been changed from closed to controlled, said Wu, the health official. Some are not allowed to leave their neighborhoods and large gatherings have been banned.
Associated Press
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