Shanghai takes further steps towards reopening, Beijing eases Covid-19 curbs

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SHANGHAI/BEIJING - Shanghai announced on Sunday further steps towards returning to more normal life and lifting a two-month Covid-19 lockdown this week, while Beijing reopened parts of its public tr

ansport, some malls, gyms and other venues as infections stabilised.

Shanghai, China's most populous city, will ease testing requirements from Wednesday for people who want to enter public areas, said city government spokeswoman Yin Xin, adding these tweaks should encourage work resumption. Plaza 66, an upscale mall in central Shanghai that hosts Louis Vuitton and other luxury brands, reopened on Sunday.More people have been allowed to leave their flats, and more businesses permitted to reopen, though many residents remain largely confined to their housing compounds, and most shops limited to deliveries.

Shanghai has already allowed key manufacturers in the auto industry, life sciences, chemicals and semiconductors to resume production since late April.In the capital Beijing, libraries, museums, theatres and gyms were allowed to reopen on Sunday, with limits on numbers of people, in districts that have seen no community Covid-19 cases for seven consecutive days.

 

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