SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The deputy mayor of Shanghai City said at a press briefing on Sunday that businesses such as shopping malls and hair salons would gradually reopen from Monday after several weeks of strict lockdown. .
People in Shanghai, subjected to draconian health security measures for more than six weeks, will be able to gradually return to shopping malls, department stores and supermarkets to shop in an “orderly manner”, in the words of Chen Tong
Hairdressing salons and greengrocers will reopen with attendance gauges, said the deputy mayor, who gave no details on the pace or extent of these reopenings.
“Our goal is to achieve ‘zero community COVID’ in the middle of the current month,” another city official explained at a press briefing on Friday. “We’re already seeing that prospect keep getting closer.”
The expression “zero community COVID”, used by the Chinese health authorities, covers the situation in which new contaminations with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus are only identified in people already under surveillance within the framework of a centralized quarantine. , in a residential complex for example.
In the absence of new infections outside these strict isolation zones, the chains of contamination are considered to have been interrupted and the focus of contamination deemed to be contained.
(Brenda Goh, Albee Zhang and Tony Munroe; French version Nicolas Delame)