Why Shanghai has abandoned its ‘relaxed’ approach to Covid


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Why Shanghai has abandoned its ‘relaxed’ approach to Covid By Wanyuan Song BBC News - Published Shanghai has announced its city-wide lockdowns will be gradually lifted from 1 June, after 15 out of 16 districts achieving "social dynamic Zero-Covid cases". China's biggest city imposed its first lockdown in the beginning of April, amid a surge in Omicron cases. What has happened in Shanghai? In spring, Shanghai confined some 25 million people to their homes. It previously tackled growing infection rates through smaller localised lockdowns. This typically meant individual residential complexes - each housing several hundred people - were locked down...