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Shanghai to ease some COVID testing requirements from June 1

Shanghai will ease COVID-19 testing requirements from June 1 for people who want to enter public areas or use public transport to encourage work resumption and a return to normal life, a city official said on Sunday.

Reuters · May 29, 2022

Shanghai edges towards COVID reopening as Beijing plans to ease curbs

The Chinese metropolis of Shanghai inched further towards a gradual reopening from two months of grinding COVID-19 lockdown, while officials in Beijing prepared to ease curbs in parts of the capital, saying on Saturday its outbreak was under control.

Reuters · May 28, 2022

Shanghai takes baby steps towards ending COVID lockdown

Shanghai took more gradual steps on Friday towards lifting its COVID-19 lockdown while Beijing was investigating cases where its strict curbs were affecting other medical treatments as China soldiered on with its uneven exit from restrictions.

Reuters · May 27, 2022

Beijing denies lockdown rumours as Shanghai hunts elusive COVID

Beijing denied it was heading for lockdown as panic buying gripped the capital on Thursday, while Shanghai combed the city for lingering COVID-19 cases in the hope of clearing the way to escape from weeks of painful restrictions.

Reuters · May 12, 2022

At mercy of zealous residential committees, Shanghai's locked-down vent frustration

Last week, Elizabeth Liu and her husband were excited about the prospect of leaving their Shanghai residential compound for the first time in over a month. All but one building in the compound had just been reclassified as low risk after 14 days of no COVID cases.

Reuters · May 12, 2022

'Like a prison': Shanghai, Beijing ratchet up COVID restrictions

China's two largest cities tightened COVID-19 curbs on Monday, fuelling public angst and even questions about the legality of its uncompromising battle with the virus that has battered the world's second largest economy.

Reuters · May 9, 2022

Shanghai tightens lockdown to hit zero-COVID goal by late May - sources

Shanghai is tightening its already strict COVID-19 lockdown in a fresh push to eliminate infections outside quarantined areas of China's biggest city by late this month, people familiar with the matter said.

Reuters · May 8, 2022

'How did we catch it?': spread of COVID baffles locked-down Shanghai residents

Veronica thought she did everything right by sticking to all of the COVID-19 lockdown rules in the Chinese city of Shanghai.

Reuters · May 5, 2022

Shanghai marks COVID milestone, Beijing on edge

Shanghai said on Saturday it had detected no new daily COVID-19 cases outside quarantine areas, marking a milestone in its battle to contain the virus, which has paralysed the city of 25 million and put residents in the capital Beijing on edge.

Reuters · Apr 30, 2022

China's COVID lockdowns add to shipping backlog. What does it mean for Australia?

With Shanghai in a full lockdown, already long shipping backlogs are now blowing out even further. Experts say the full effects are yet to hit Australia.

ABC News · Apr 28, 2022