Shanghai aims to reopen more businesses, Beijing battles on against Covid-19

Workers attend to a customer at a checkout counter of a reopened supermarket in Shanghai on May 5, 2022. - Reuters

SHANGHAI, May 15 (Reuters): Shanghai will gradually begin reopening businesses such as shopping malls and hair salons in China’s financial and manufacturing hub from Monday (May 16) after weeks in strict Covid-19 lockdown, while Beijing battles a small but persistent outbreak.

All but shut down for more than six weeks, Shanghai is tightening curbs in some areas that it hopes marks a final push in its campaign against the virus, which has infuriated and exhausted residents of China’s largest and most cosmopolitan city.