BEIJING/SHANGHAI • China's capital Beijing tightened Covid-19 restrictions yesterday as it battled an outbreak, while Shanghai let some of its 25 million residents venture out after reporting a second day of zero infections outside of quarantine areas.
Shanghai's outbreak, which began in March, has been China's worst since the early months of the pandemic in 2020. Hundreds of thousands have been infected.
Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan, in Shanghai to oversee the city's counter-epidemic work, said yesterday that while now is not the time to relax, communities with no new cases for seven days should be allowed to return to "normal social order", adding that the situation in Shanghai has been steadily improving and effectively controlled.
The outbreak in China's most populous city and the risk of a spread in Beijing are testing the government's zero-Covid-19 approach. Beijing, which has seen over 300 cases since April 22, has not locked down.
There were 59 new cases on Saturday, up from 54 the previous day.
This story is from the May 02, 2022 edition of The Straits Times.
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