Millions still in lockdown: Covid-hit Shanghai announces gradual reopening of businesses


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China uses snap lockdowns, mass testing and lengthy quarantines to quash outbreaks under its zero-Covid strategy / © AFP/File Shanghai announced a gradual reopening from Monday of businesses, though it remains unclear when the millions of people still locked down in China's economic capital will finally be allowed out of their homes. Confronted with its worst Covid-19 outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic, China -- the last major economy still closed off to the world -- put the city of 25 million under heavy restrictions in early April. The rigid strategy to root out virus cases at all costs...