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| Shanghai starts coming back to life as COVID lockdown eases |
| 2022-06-02 |
| [AlAhram] Traffic, pedestrians and joggers reappeared on the streets of Shanghai on Wednesday as China's largest city began returning to normality amid the easing of a strict two-month COVID-19 lockdown that has drawn unusual protests over its heavy-handed implementation. Shanghai's Communist Party committee, the city's most powerful political body, issued a letter online proclaiming the lockdown's success and thanking citizens for their ``support and contributions.`` The move came amid a steady rollback in compulsory measures that have upended daily life for millions while severely disrupting the economy and global supply chains. While defending President and Communist Party chief Xi Jinping's hardline ``zero-COVID`` policy, the country's leadership appears to be acknowledging the public backlash against measures seen as trampling already severely limited rights to privacy and participation in the workings of government. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 ... remain under lockdown or in designated control zones because virus cases are still being detected. So a two-month severe lockdown still can't stop the virus? Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Tony Fauci! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2022-06-02 10:43 |