Over the weekend, the capital city of Beijing closed theme parks and banned dining in restaurants to control Covid — just as a five-day holiday got underway.
Before the second list came out, the EU Chamber of Commerce in China said the whitelist"is a promising sign for Shanghai's bounce back."
But truck driver shortages and getting shifts of workers between factory bubbles and their homes remained a challenge, said Bettina Schoen-Behanzin, the chamber's vice president and Shanghai chair. She estimated Friday that supply chain and logistics challenges would last until the end of June. As of Monday, the number of people in Shanghai subject to the strictest stay-home orders fell to 2.5 million, down from 5.3 million four days earlier, according to official figures. On Sunday, municipal authorities announced six regions of Shanghai had contained the virus at a community level, but not most of the downtown areas of the city.For Monday, mainland China reported a drop in new Covid cases with symptoms, to 368 versus closer to 1,000 or far more in recent weeks.
While residents are not allowed to leave parts of the city under lockdown, businesses in other areas generally remain open to those with a negative virus test from within the last 48 hours. Beijing has been conducting multiple rounds of mass testing in the last week. It also announced weekly tests would be required after the holiday to take public transit or go to public areas like supermarkets.Disclosure: NBCUniversal is the parent company of Universal Studios and CNBC.
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