'We thought there wouldn't be too many people here, but we were surprised after coming over that a lot of people are here. 'Then we said, 'Let's go to the Bund to have fun,'' she said in the city's historic riverside district. Still, more than half a million people in the city of 25 million remain under lockdown or in designated control zones because virus cases are still being detected. In one such step, the Cabinet's Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism issued a letter Tuesday laying out rules banning 'non-standard, simple and rude indoor disinfection' by mostly untrained teams in Shanghai and elsewhere that have left homes damaged and led to reports of property theft.įull bus and subway service in Shanghai was being restored from Wednesday, with rail connections to the rest of China to follow. While defending President and Communist Party chief Xi Jinping's hardline 'zero-COVID' policy, the country's leadership appears to be acknowledging the public backlash against measures seen as trampling already severely limited rights to privacy and participation in the workings of government. Shanghai's Communist Party committee, the city's most powerful political body, issued a letter online proclaiming the lockdown's success and thanking citizens for their 'support and contributions.' The move came amid a steady rollback in compulsory measures that have upended daily life for millions while severely disrupting the economy and global supply chains.

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