BEIJING, May 23 — Beijing authorities extended work-from-home guidance for many of its 22 million residents to stem a persistent Covid-19 outbreak, while Shanghai deployed more testing and curbs to hold on to its hard-won ‘zero Covid’ status after two months of lockdown.
Analysts at Gavekal Dragonomics estimated last week that fewer than 5 per cent of Chinese cities were reporting infections, down from a quarter in late March, in a Covid outbreak that has cast a pall over growth in the world’s no. 2 economy. But vigilance, and concern, remains acute in Shanghai and the capital.
Beijing had already curtailed public transport, asked some shopping malls and other stores and venues to close and sealed buildings where new cases were detected. The highly-transmissible Omicron variant of the virus first discovered in the city of Wuhan in late 2019 has proven hard to defeat even with strict measures that starkly contrast the resumption of normal life elsewhere in the world.
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