Shanghai and Beijing again received a new Covid-19 alert on Thursday as parts of China’s largest economic center imposed new lockdown restrictions.
Meanwhile, the Chinese capital’s most populous district announced the closure of entertainment venues, and news of the lockdown in Shanghai’s Minhang district, home to more than 2 million people, plunged Chinese stocks.
Both cities had recently eased heavy restrictions against Covid, but the country maintained a “zero tolerance” policy aimed at ending transmission chains as quickly as possible.
Shanghai residents in particular are nervous about the rise in new cases after the city’s two-month quarantine ends. On Thursday, officials were tracking three infections at Red Rose, a popular downtown beauty salon that reopened on June 1 as the lockdown ended.
Local media outlet The Paper reported that the store has served 502 customers from 15 of Shanghai’s 16 districts in the past eight days.
A Twitter-like Weibo user of the hall asked, “When will this end?” made his comment. “I just want to have a normal life.”
Authorities said a preliminary investigation had shown that some of the salon’s 16 employees were not being properly tested for daily Covid, and that 90,000 people linked to Red Rose’s staff or customers were being tested.
While China’s infection rate is low by global standards, President Xi Jinping has stepped up a strict policy against covid, which officials say is necessary to protect the country’s elderly and medical system, even as other countries struggle to live with the coronavirus.
source: Noticias
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