China, which has faced the worst epidemic outbreak in recent weeks for two years, has put the immense metropolis under the bell, the contagion epicenter.
Le Monde with AFP
The city of Shanghai announced on Sunday the “progressive” reopening of shops as of Monday, May 16, when the inhabitants of the Chinese economic capital are increasingly exceeded after two months of confinement.
China, which has faced its worst epidemic outbreak in recent weeks for two years, has put the immense metropolis under the bell, the contagion epicenter. Some of the 25 million inhabitants of Shanghai were however already confined to home before this date.
Exasperated by the problems of supplying fresh products, access to medical care outside COVVID and the sending of people tested positive in the center of quarantine, many pour their anger on the internet.
a Decrease in positive cases
Sunday, the vice-mayor of Shanghai, Chen Tong, announced the “stages” reopening of shops as of Monday, May 16, without specifying if he condition the resumption of health criteria. In China, all lifting of restrictions is generally conditioned on “zero contamination in society”, that is to say no new cases for three days outside the quarantine centers.
The Shanghai authorities are aimed at this goal in “mid-May”. The decline seems to be engaged: 1,369 new cases were announced Sunday in Shanghai, against more than 25,000 at the end of April. In certain districts of the city, restrictions, however, tend to tackle.
At 1,200 kilometers further north, the capital, Beijing, lives in fear of confinement, after more than a thousand cases identified since the end of April. The city has undergone SARS-COV-2 screening tests on several occasions, confine the residences housing people whose test is positive and has closed metro stations and non-essential shops in certain neighborhoods.
To brake the contagion, the Fangshan district, located in the southwest of Beijing and which has 1.3 million inhabitants, suspended taxi traffic on Saturday. Apart from a few confined districts, the vast majority of 22 million Beijing people can still leave their home.
However, many public places are closed and the inhabitants are forced to telework, in particular in the district of Chaoyang, in the east of Beijing, the most populated in the capital and where many multinationals are installed.