Shanghai will no longer require negative PCR of less than 48 hours to access public places

Shanghai will abolish as of Monday some measures of the drastic anti-covid policy in force in Chinathe authorities announced on Sunday, after a wave of historic demonstrations against health restrictions and in defense of more political freedoms.

The inhabitants of this financial center of China They will be able to use public transport again and access certain places (such as parks and tourist attractions) without having to present a negative PCR test of less than 48 hours, the authorities indicated in a message on the WeChat social network.

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Shanghai follows in the footsteps of many other Chinese cities, including Beijing, Tianjin, Shenzhen and Chengdu, which on Saturday suspended the obligation to present this test on transport.

Discontent over the government’s draconian health strategy generated protests last weekend of a magnitude unprecedented for decades in the communist country.

The authorities reacted quickly to quell the movementwith a significant police deployment and reinforced surveillance on social networks.

In parallel, several cities began to relax restrictions, especially that of suppressing massive daily tests, one of the foundations of the “zero covid” policy, imposed for almost three years.

Saturday, local authorities in Beijing also stopped recording the real names of people buying cold and fever medicines.

President Xi Jinping defended on Thursday a relaxation of the health strategy, alleging that “now the epidemic in China it is basically omicron, less lethal, and (…) that opens the possibility of more opening in the restrictions”, according to the president in a meeting with the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, quoted by European officials.

Source: Elcomercio

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