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Shanghai tweaks lockdown rules amid COVID-19 surge

Workers in protective suits work inside a makeshift COVID-19 testing laboratory in Shanghai, China [cnsphoto via Reuters]

Shanghai has eased a punishing citywide lockdown that it imposed to break a surge in cases that is the biggest test of China’s two-year strategy to stamp out the disease wherever it appears.

Authorities in Shanghai introduced the three-tier disease control system on Monday, allowing residents in areas where no cases have been reported for 14 days to leave their homes so long as they follow health protocols and remain in their sub-district.

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