SHANGHAI/BEIJING - More Shanghai residents were given the freedom to go out to shop for groceries for the first time in nearly two months on Thursday (May 19) as authorities set out more plans for exiting the city-wide Covid-19 lockdown more fully. The commercial hub of 25 million recorded no new infections outside quarantined areas for a fifth day in...
A worker in a protective suit sorts vegetables in a shopping cart, at a reopened Carrefour supermarket amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Shanghai, China, on May 19, 2022.SHANGHAI/BEIJING - More Shanghai residents were given the freedom to go out to shop for groceries for the first time in nearly two months on Thursday as authorities set out more plans for exiting the city-wide Covid-19 lockdown more fully.
"We've mainly relied on government provisions and group-buys," said Zhong, who was stocking up on eggs, goji berries, black sesame and oats. The city was "striving to achieve a full resumption of work and production as soon as possible," he said. Shanghai reported fewer than 800 new cases. None were from outside quarantined areas, for a fifth day in a row.
Roughly half of Taiwanese companies that suspended work in China because of Covid had resumed production, the democratically ruled island's economy minister said.
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