Beijing: Shanghai On Wednesday, 4 million more people were allowed out of their homes and some factories resumed operations under coronavirus rules that shut down China’s largest city.
A total of about 12 million people in the city of 25 million are allowed to go out after last week’s first round of easing, the health official said. wu ganyu said in a press conference. Wu said the virus was “under effective control” for the first time in parts of the city.
Shanghai closed businesses and confined most of its population to their homes since March 28 following a spike in infections. This led to complaints about shortages in the supply of food and medicine. People in Shanghai who test positive but have no symptoms have been ordered to be sent to quarantine centers set up in exhibition halls and other public buildings.
The closure of Shanghai and other industrial hubs to fight the outbreak has raised fears of disrupting global manufacturing and trade. Official data this week shows that economic activity in the first three months of this year has declined compared to the last quarter of 2021.
China’s case count in its latest infection surge remains relatively low, but the ruling communist party Is implementing a “zero-Covid” strategy that has locked down major cities to isolate every case.
On Wednesday, the government reported 19,927 new cases in mainland China, of whom all except 2,761 had no symptoms. Shanghai accounted for 95% of the total cases, or 18,902 cases, of which only 2,495 had symptoms.
The government reported 26,760 people who tested positive but had no symptoms, released from observation on Wednesday. This includes 25,411 in Shanghai, where some residents of quarantine centers have complained that they are unwell.
Other major industrial and trading centers including Changchun, Jilin and Shenyang in the northeast, the port of Tianjin in the east Beijing And Shenzhen and Guangzhou to the south have closed businesses, imposed travel restrictions or told residents to stay home.
This 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 factory had resumed production and the automaker was considering when to reopen its Shanghai facility. BMW AG said that its factory in Shenyang had reopened.
Health official Wu said that under the latest changes, the situation in areas with more than 4 million people has been shifted from closed to controlled. Some of them are not allowed to leave their neighborhoods and large gatherings were banned.
A total of about 12 million people in the city of 25 million are allowed to go out after last week’s first round of easing, the health official said. wu ganyu said in a press conference. Wu said the virus was “under effective control” for the first time in parts of the city.
Shanghai closed businesses and confined most of its population to their homes since March 28 following a spike in infections. This led to complaints about shortages in the supply of food and medicine. People in Shanghai who test positive but have no symptoms have been ordered to be sent to quarantine centers set up in exhibition halls and other public buildings.
The closure of Shanghai and other industrial hubs to fight the outbreak has raised fears of disrupting global manufacturing and trade. Official data this week shows that economic activity in the first three months of this year has declined compared to the last quarter of 2021.
China’s case count in its latest infection surge remains relatively low, but the ruling communist party Is implementing a “zero-Covid” strategy that has locked down major cities to isolate every case.
On Wednesday, the government reported 19,927 new cases in mainland China, of whom all except 2,761 had no symptoms. Shanghai accounted for 95% of the total cases, or 18,902 cases, of which only 2,495 had symptoms.
The government reported 26,760 people who tested positive but had no symptoms, released from observation on Wednesday. This includes 25,411 in Shanghai, where some residents of quarantine centers have complained that they are unwell.
Other major industrial and trading centers including Changchun, Jilin and Shenyang in the northeast, the port of Tianjin in the east Beijing And Shenzhen and Guangzhou to the south have closed businesses, imposed travel restrictions or told residents to stay home.
This 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 factory had resumed production and the automaker was considering when to reopen its Shanghai facility. BMW AG said that its factory in Shenyang had reopened.
Health official Wu said that under the latest changes, the situation in areas with more than 4 million people has been shifted from closed to controlled. Some of them are not allowed to leave their neighborhoods and large gatherings were banned.