In Shanghai, residents of ‘low’ epidemiological risk areas return to work tomorrow

Shanghai will implement a smoother process of controlling the new coronavirus pandemic from tomorrow Wednesday, allowing department stores and businesses to reopen and citizens of “low-risk” areas to spread to return to work, officials in the Chinese financial capital said today. .

The smooth running of the railways will also resume, with domestic flights to and from the city of 25 million people increasing, Deputy Mayor Jong Ming said in a digitally-released press conference.

However, public areas will be allowed to operate at 75% of its capacity and those wishing to enter them will have to test negative for a SARS-CoV-2 molecular test (PCR) to be allowed to enter.

The Chinese metropolis announced the end of the two-month lockdown that was imposed yesterday, Monday.

In mainland China, 28 cases of the virus have been confirmed with symptoms due to transmission to the community in the past 24 hours, nine of them in Shanghai. The Ministry of Health also mentioned 69 asymptomatic cases, 22 of them in Shanghai.

No deaths were reported due to complications of COVID-19 during the same period. Officially, the pandemic in the country where the new coronavirus was detected two years ago has remained unchanged, at 5,226 dead. It is generally considered underestimated by experts.

SOURCE: AMPE