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Shanghai Eases Lockdown While Trying to Maintain Covid Zero
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April 12, 2022
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0:58Now PlayingWhile Shanghai announced Monday it was easing its Covid-19 lockdown for 43% of housing complexes, the vast majority of its 25 million residents are still subject to tight movement restrictions as China tries to maintain its Covid Zero strategy.
Residents living in places where lockdowns were technically eased said that they were still barred or discouraged from leaving their compounds by property management or neighborhood committee personnel, and those who did make it out onto the streets said no shops were open and staff asked them to leave quickly.
The ostensible easing comes as Shanghai, home to the country headquarters of many domestic and multinational companies and the world’s largest container port, continues to struggle to stop transmission in the worst Covid outbreak in China in two years.
The control measures are now weighing on the world’s second-largest economy and beginning to disrupt global supply chains. There were 23,342 cases in the city Monday, a drop from Sunday’s record but still up from about 5,000 just two weeks ago.
Nevertheless, China’s strict Covid Zero strategy remains paramount. Shanghai’s communist party chief Li Qiang on Monday pledged the city will continue with its lockdown rules to control the outbreak, according to a release on its official Wechat account. The government has also warned that it will reimpose lockdown measures on compounds if they report even a single new case.
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