12 million+ in Shanghai can leave homes as COVID-19 risk ebbs


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[3 500 children in Zimbabwe have muscular dystrophy] REUTERS-SHANGHAI, As many as 12.38 million Shanghai residents, nearly half the population of China’s financial hub, are now in lower-risk areas, meaning they can leave their homes, the government has said. Shanghai, battling China’s biggest ever COVID-19 outbreak, put the entire city into lockdown at the beginning of the month, though it has cautiously lifted some restrictions on residential areas that have gone two weeks without a positive case. The city classifies each housing unit according to three levels of risk, designating those that have not seen a COVID-19 positive case for...