Shanghai officials promise to ease anti-COVID-19 controls amid food worries

Beijing: Officials in Shanghai promised Friday to ease anti-virus controls on truck drivers that are hampering food supplies and trade, while city streets were still largely empty after millions of people were allowed out of their homes. A deputy mayor, Zhang Wei, promised “every effort” to resolve problems that prompted complaints about lack of food and fears that the shutdown, which barred most of Shanghai’s 25 million people from going outdoors, might disrupt global trade. The streets of China’s most populous city were quiet despite an easing of restrictions beginning April 13 that has released more than 10 million people….