More than 12 million people can technically come out of their houses, but must remain in the enclosure of their residence or neighborhood, according to the town hall of the economic capital.
Le Monde with AFP
Totally confined since the beginning of the month, the city of Shanghai has slightly relaxed the restrictions that penalize refueling and weigh heavily on China’s economy, despite the increase in CVIV-19 cases and deaths.
The 25 million inhabitants of Shanghai, where more than 400,000 infections have been reported since the beginning of March, are in principle subject to strict home confinement. But some rules have been lightened since last week, the town hall did.
More than 12 million people can technically come out of their home, but must remain in the enclosure of their residence or neighborhood, said the city. In theory, neighborhood inhabitants where no case has been reported during the last fourteen days can circulate freely.
But many people in such areas have complained about social networks not to be allowed to leave their neighborhood. Freedom of movement remains conditioned to the goodwill of the Communist Party volunteers, who often apply a lot of zeal the anti-Covid measurements.
Seven additional deaths
The authorities remain cautious in the face of increasing the number of deaths related to COVID-19, especially in the elderly, more vulnerable and less vaccinated.
Shanghai referred for seven additional seven deaths in twenty-four hours, bringing to seventeen the total deaths in the metropolis. Seven deaths concern people with pathologies such as lung cancer or diabetes, and five of them were over 70 years old.
The city has also reported more than 18,000 cases on Wednesday, a figure that remains weak in comparison with the rest of the world, but which is none the less the highest for China since the first phase of the Epidemic, early 2020. Counts of many countries that opt for cohabitation with the virus and raise restrictions, China continues to follow a Zero Covid strategy.
The inhabitants of the Chinese economic capital seem, on social networks, more and more exasperated by the difficulties of access to food and forced isolation of positive people in quarantine centers, comfort and Random hygiene.
Multinationals are concerned about the consequences for the global containment chains, which was to last only four days. Many companies have stopped their production.
The authorities have begun to list the so-called strategic companies, in which production must continue.
More than six hundred companies have been selected for an early recovery in Shanghai. The American Giant of the Tesla Electric Car, which has an important production site in the city, has taken its business on Tuesday after twenty days of suspension, according to the local media. The work also refers gradually in the north-east of the country, cradle of the automotive industry, where dozens of millions of Chinese have been confined in recent weeks.