While circulation restrictions are lifted in Shanghai and Beijing, the authorities maintain an objective of eradication of the virus, heavy with consequences for the population.
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Two months after the start of a confinement which, according to the authorities, was to last only four days, the vast majority of the twenty-five million Shanghais can again leave their home, from Wednesday 1 ER June. Likewise, the situation in Beijing, subject to a semi-confident, since 1 er May, gradually returns to normal. With the exception of schools that remain closed and cafes-restaurants that only take to take away, most businesses and social activities have reopened, and employees are no longer forced to teleworking.
“We do not think that the zero covid strategy is sustainable, given the current behavior and, according to our forecasts, future of the virus,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Managing Director of the World Health Organization, the May 10. China intends to demonstrate the opposite. “After winning the battle against the epidemic, in Wuhan, and found the level of prepaandic productivity, then having been victorious in Shanghai (…), China shows the world that it obtained remarkable results during this test and That he will do the same in the future, “Dononne Li Junru, one of the theorists of the Chinese Communist Party in the daily global Times of 1 er June. The victory is however only partial. The city of Dandong (2.3 million inhabitants), on the border with North Korea, is officially confined.
Symbols of the pursuit of this policy sums up the triptych “test, trace, isolate”, in Beijing as in Shanghai, the thousands of temporary tents, where the population must be tested, are gradually replaced by containers fitted and sustainable. The “new normality” is only partially like “life before”. Beijingists must be tested every forty-eight hours, and the Shanghaians every three days. Without testing, access to businesses and public transport is prohibited. Whether you are vaccinated or not. In the slightest positive case, hundreds or even thousands of contacts are sent in quarantine, for a week, and the buildings they have attended are confined. Living in an area considered “as a medium danger” (where cases have been identified, but without exceeding the number of fifty in the previous two weeks) – or at high danger (more than fifty cases) makes the purchase of purchase materially impossible ‘A train or plane ticket. In addition, there is a good chance that the city where you want to go to refuse you access or impose you around quarantine.
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