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Shanghai is now expected to open up gradually, following a brutal lockdown. (Pictured: Customers line up outside a Carrefour supermarket) It’s taken more than a month, but Shanghai’s leaders now think the city’s Covid outbreak is almost contained. So they’ve ordered a mass clean-up – an army of people disinfecting thousands of compounds and residential areas aiming to eradicate the virus. Then China’s financial capital will open up, but it will be gradual, tentative, cautious. The brutal “war” against Omicron has left a scarred city. People as old as 100 were among those who tested positive and were taken to...
