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Shanghai officials said on Wednesday that half the city had achieved “zero COVID” status, but uncompromising restrictions had to remain in place under a national policy that the head of the World Health Organization described as “unsustainable.”

A resident and a child look out through gaps in the barriers at a closed residential area during lockdown, amid the coronavirus disease pandemic, in Shanghai, China, May 10, 2022.A resident and a child look out through gaps in the barriers at a closed residential area during lockdown, amid the coronavirus disease pandemic, in Shanghai, China, May 10, 2022.

Half of the city’s 16 districts had achieved zero COVID status having not recorded any such cases for three days.“We must clearly recognise that the current situation is not stable and the risk of a rebound still remains, Zhao Dandan, deputy director of Shanghai’s health commission, told an online press conference.

In Beijing, where authorities were trying to avoid Shanghai’s fate, many businesses have been closed and large numbers of people were told to work from home in an effort to end an outbreak of dozens of daily cases.

 

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Strict restrictions must remain in place throughout China.

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