COVID restrictions ease in Shanghai as case count drops


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BEIJING (UKTN) — Shanghai is set to allow in-person dining and reopen its Disney Resort theme park as locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in China’s largest city remain at zero after a lockdown of more than two months. Chinese authorities hail their uncompromising ‘zero-COVID’ policy to stem the rise in virus cases and deaths, despite the huge cost to China’s economy and international supply chains reliant on manufacturing and shipping capacity of China that have been skewed. China has repeatedly defended the policy and indications are that it will maintain “zero-COVID” at least until the spring of 2023, when President Xi...