Women eat together outside a closed convenience store on May 31, 2022 in Beijing. Eating inside is prohibited due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
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State media said on Sunday Beijing would further ease Covid-19 curbs by allowing indoor dining, as the Chinese capital gradually returns to normal with cargo volumes. decrease, state media said.
Beijing and the mall Shanghai have returned to normal in recent days after two months of painful lockdowns to contain an outbreak of the omicron variant.
Catering services in Beijing will reopen on Monday, with the exception of Fengtai district and some parts of Changping district, the Beijing Daily reported. Restaurants and bars have been subject to takeout restrictions since early May.
Normal business will resume and the traffic ban will be lifted on Monday in most areas of Beijing, the newspaper reported. Employees in some regions are required to work from home.
Residents will have to present a PRC test taken within 72 hours to enter public spaces and use public transport, as part of steps to normalize COVID testing, the newspaper reported. believe.
Beijing reported 16 new local symptomatic cases, up from five days earlier, and three new local asymptomatic cases, up from one, according to the local government. local rights.
Shanghai reported six new local symptomatic cases, up from five new local cases and 16 asymptomatic cases compared with nine the day before, local government data showed. see.
Mainland China records 162 cases of coronavirus daily, of which 56 are symptomatic and 106 are asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said. This compares with 171 new cases a day earlier – 46 symptomatic cases and 125 asymptomatic cases, counted separately by China.
There were no new deaths, bringing the country’s death toll to 5,226. As of Saturday, mainland China has confirmed 224,310 symptomatic cases.
