COVID restrictions ease in Shanghai as case numbers drop | WTNH.com

BEIJING (AP) — Shanghai is moving to allow in-person dining and reopening its Disney Resort theme park as domestically transmitted cases of COVID-19 in China's largest city remain at zero following a more than two-month lockdown. Chinese officials hail their hardline "zero-COVID" policy for stemming the growth of cases and deaths from the virus, despite the enormous cost to the Chinese economy and international supply chains reliant on China's manufacturing and shipping abilities that have been thrown askew. China has repeatedly defended the policy and indications are it will maintain "zero-COVID" at least through the spring of 2023, when President…