The containment relief measures, announced this weekend in Shanghai, began on Monday, April 11. Residents of certain areas can move on the streets again, but this remains very limited and on a case-by-case basis.
With our correspondent in Beijing, Stephane Lagarde
” The lucky ones have won the right to take out their trash “, confides in a touch of humor a confined person from Shanghai. Because for the moment, only the residents of part of the neighborhood communities of three districts (Jinshan, Jingan, Chongming) of the Chinese economic capital learned at the end of the afternoon that they could once again cross their threshold. . But not for the moment, there is no question of going beyond the proximity of their residence, or even their alley, to engage in what the authorities describe as ” appropriate activities in their neighborhood “.
Back to zero dynamic Covid? Like Beijing since the arrival of OmicronShanghai is now divided into “sealed” areas and in “control” and “prevention” space. It is in this last category that residents can once again leave their building. But again, be careful to respect social distancing, if a positive case is reported everything closes immediately.
We are still far from the end of a confinement which in any case will only take place in stages. ” Solidarity against Covid will help contain the epidemic “, sang on a tune of traditional opera an official in Canton, while announcing that the Chinese provinces had been ordered to prepare field hospitals to receive positive cases, such as the Shanghai Exhibition Center which has nearly 50,000 beds.
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