In China, Shanghai is trying to get out of strict confinement

Shanghai, Sunday, April 10, 2022. AP

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The containment relief measures, announced this weekend in Shanghai, began on Monday, April 11.

Residents of certain areas can move on the streets again, but this remains very limited and on a case-by-case basis.

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With our correspondent in Beijing,

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,” confides in a touch of humor a confined person from Shanghai.

Because for the moment, only the residents of part of the neighborhood communities of three districts (Jinshan, Jingan, Chongming) of the Chinese economic capital learned at the end of the afternoon that they could once again cross their threshold. .

But not for the moment, there is no question of going beyond the proximity of their residence, or even their alley, to engage in what the authorities describe

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, Shanghai is now divided into

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It is in this last category that residents can once again leave their building.

But again, be careful to respect social distancing, if a positive case is reported everything closes immediately.

We are still far from the end of a confinement which in any case will only take place in stages.

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”, sang on a traditional opera tune an official in Canton, while announcing that the Chinese provinces had been ordered to prepare field hospitals to receive positive cases. ,

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