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Coronavirus: Shanghai Covid-19 cases fall for 11th day, prompting officials to greenlight more manufacturers to resume production
- The municipal government said it will allow more companies to resume production if they can comply with virus-control rules
- Officials remain wary about lifting the overall lockdown as 63 new cases emerged outside the quarantine zones, indicating a continuing risk of resurgence
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Shanghai’s government will allow more manufacturing businesses to resume production as the city reported the lowest daily addition of new cases since April 2.
On Tuesday night, the municipal government issued revised guidelines asking companies that are ready to comply with virus-control rules to apply to resume production, raising hopes for an end to crippling supply-chain disturbances.
New Covid-19 cases in Shanghai fell for the 11th consecutive day, with authorities discovering a total of 4,982 cases over the past 24 hours, according to data released on Wednesday. That is a 12.1 per cent drop from a day earlier, and the lowest number since April 2. Symptomatic cases also dropped 5.1 per cent to 260, while 16 patients died.
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However, 63 new cases emerged in the low-risk, unguarded zones, indicating that Shanghai has yet to achieve the societal zero-Covid goal – defined as zero new cases in the non-quarantined zones.
“The data showed that the city was edging closer to containing the outbreak,” said Wang Feng, chairman of financial service group Ye Lang Capital in Shanghai. “But the number of cases in unguarded zones was not a good sign with risks of a resurgence remaining.”
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