| China’s capital Beijing tightened COVID-19 restrictions on Sunday as it battled an outbreak, while Shanghai let some of its 25 million residentsafter reporting a second day of zero infections outside of quarantine areas.
Beijing, with dozens of daily infections in an outbreak now in its 10th day, has not locked down. More than 300 locally transmitted cases have been logged since April 22. “Our boss is stressing out about this too,” Jia said, asking to be identified only by his surname. “We have three branches in Shanghai. They’ve all been shut and losing cash for a month. And now this.”Beijing’s sprawling Universal Studios theme park closed on Sunday, while in the popular Badaling section of the Great Wall, visitors were told to show proof of negative COVID-19 test results before entering.
While much of the city remains in lockdown, Shanghai officials, striking a confident tone, said on Sunday that curbs on some areas would be eased after the city reined in COVID-19 transmission risks at the community level, excluding cases in quarantine centres.Six of its 16 districts attained zero-COVID status, meaning three consecutive days with no new daily increases in infections, senior city government official Gu Honghui told a virtual news conference.
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