Mask-wearing Beijing and Shanghai commuters crowded subway trains on Monday, with China's two biggest cities moving closer to living with Covid-19, as millions have been infected with the virus across the country. | News24_Business
Beijing and Shanghai commuters crowded subway trains on Monday, as millions have been infected with the virus across the country.
After years of ruthless anti-coronavirus curbs, President Xi Jinping scrapped the country's zero-Covid policy in the face of protests and a widening outbreak. An annual Christmas market held at the Bund, a commercial area in Shanghai, was also crowded over the weekend. Crowds thronged the winter festive season at Shanghai Disneyland and Beijing's Universal Studios on Sunday, queuing up for rides in Christmas-themed outfits.The number of trips to scenic spots in the southern city of Guangzhou this weekend increased by 132% from last weekend, the local newspaper The 21st Century Business Herald reported.
Tesla suspended production at its Shanghai plant on Saturday, bringing ahead a plan to pause most work at the plant in the last week of December. The company did not give a reason.Despite a record surge of cases nationwide, China reported no Covid-19 deaths on the mainland for the six days through Sunday, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on Sunday, even as crematories faced surging demand.
The provincial government of Zhejiang, a big industrial province near Shanghai with a population of 65.4 million, said on Sunday it was battling about a million new daily COVID-19 infections, a number expected to double in the days ahead.Health authorities in the southeastern Jiangxi province have said infections would hit an apex in early January, adding that there could be other peaks as people travel next month for Lunar New Year celebrations, state media reported.
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