Shanghai to lift lockdown in some areas despite Covid case rise
Authorities in China's financial centre of Shanghai said they would start lifting lockdown in some areas from today, despite reporting more than 25,000 new Covid-19 infections, as they strive to get the city moving again after more than two weeks.
Shanghai has classed residential units into three risk categories, to allow those in areas without positive cases for a stretch of two weeks to engage in "appropriate activity" in their neighbourhoods, city official Gu Honghui said.
It promises relief for some of the city's 25 million residents, many of whom struggled to find food and medicine after more than three weeks locked down in the battle on China's biggest outbreak since coronavirus was first discovered in central Wuhan in late 2019.
China's strategy remains unchanged, however, with national health official Liang Wannian saying the "dynamic clearance"policy was still Shanghai's "best option".
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