Shanghai’s lively streets on Monday contrasted sharply with the atmosphere in April and May when hardly anyone went outside
An annual Christmas market held at the Bund, a commercial district in Shanghai, was popular with city residents 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.
China is the last major country to move toward treating COVID-19 as endemic, lifting lockdowns and nearly all other restrictions on daily life. Its containment measures had slowed the $17 trillion economy to its lowest growth rate in nearly half a century, disrupting global supply chains and trade. On Dec. 21, dozens of elderly patients in critical condition were being wheeled into crowded wards in ZhuoZhou, in China’s industrial Hebei province. China changed how it officially records COVID-19 deaths as cases soar across the country amid the loosening of restrictions.The world’s most populous country has narrowed its definition for classifying deaths as COVID-related, counting only those involving COVID-caused pneumonia or respiratory failure, raising eyebrows among world health experts.
The 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. The city of Qingdao, in the eastern province of Shandong, has estimated that up to 530,000 residents were being infected each day.
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