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Shanghai faces 'relatively high' risk of further COVID community spread

A man helps a woman to consume a packet of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) Lianhua Qingwen, as she sits by the side of a road outside a residential compound, during a lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Shanghai, China April 5, 2022. Picture taken April 5, 2022. REUTERS/Aly Song/Files

China's commercial hub Shanghai faces a "relatively high" risk of further community transmission of COVID-19, Lei Zhenglong, an official at the National Health Commission, said on Friday.

Shanghai reopened most cinemas on Friday, sticking to a plan of gradual resumption of daily activities after lifting a two-month COVID-19 lockdown in June, while also trying, like several other Chinese cities, to contain resurgent infections.

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