BEIJING, May 10 (BNA): Authorities in Shanghai have again tightened anti-virus restrictions, as the city is emerging from a month of strict lockdown due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Notices issued in several areas said residents were ordered to stay at home and prevented from receiving non-essential deliveries as part of a “quiet period” that will last until at least Wednesday. The notices said the stricter measures could be extended depending on the results of mass testing.
“Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. Together we can lift the lockdown early,” said one of the notices issued in the city’s Huangpu district and posted online.
Shanghai on Monday recorded 3,947 cases of infection in the past 24 hours, nearly all of them asymptomatic, along with 11 deaths. Authorities have gradually lifted isolation rules for the city’s 25 million residents, but the new orders appear to have returned to conditions in the early stage of the outbreak.
Shanghai originally ordered mass testing along with a limited lockdown, but it has extended that as the number of cases rises.
In Beijing, the largest area of the city was closed off, residents were told to stay at home and shops were closed. Beijing has ordered daily testing of all residents, closed parks and other entertainment venues and only limited restaurants for fast food businesses.
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