From June 1, companies in Shanghai will no longer need permission to open their doors. Vice Mayor Wu Qing announced this on Sunday, according to international news agencies. This seems to be the end of the strict lockdown that applied in the metropolis for two months.
Since a revival of the omikron variant in March, many residents of Shanghai have hardly been allowed to leave their homes. Some facilities partially reopened in mid-May, and the city is loosening more rules now that the infection numbers have continued to fall. Other “unreasonable measures” would also disappear, but Wu did not clarify which ones.
The AP news agency writes that most residents of Shanghai were already allowed to go outside according to the official rules, but that the administrators of residential complexes stopped them. In China, they are largely responsible for compliance with the corona measures. After protests by residents, some of the neighborhood committees still opened their doors.
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