- Title: Shanghai residents rush to buy groceries as lockdown lifts
- Date: 1st June 2022
- Summary: SHANGHAI, CHINA (JUNE 1, 2021) (REUTERS) PEOPLE BUYING VEGETABLES AT GROCERY STORE EXTERIOR OF GROCERY STORE PEOPLE PICKING VEGETABLES (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) SHANGHAI LOCAL, WANG, SAYING: "Finally at ease. I stayed at home all day and never went out, I felt sloppy." PEOPLE STANDING AROUND GROCERY STORE VARIOUS OF PEOPLE PICKING FRUITS PEOPLE RIDING BIKES ON ROAD PEOPLE GATHERING AND CHATTING IN FRONT OF GATE PEOPLE QUEUING UP FOR COVID TEST INTERIOR OF SUBWAY STATION ENTRANCE OF SUBWAY STATION VARIOUS OF PEOPLE QUEUING UP FOR COVID TEST
- Embargoed: 15th June 2022 03:18
- Keywords: COVID-19 China Shanghai ban lifted lockdown pandemic
- Location: SHANGHAI, CHINA
- City: SHANGHAI, CHINA
- Country: China
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Health/Medicine
- Reuters ID: LVA001195601062022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Following two months of frustration, despair and economic loss, Shanghai's residents were seen on Wednesday (June 1) buying groceries, picking out fruits and engaging in chitchats.
Most of Shanghai's 25 million residents can now freely leave home, return to work, use public transport and drive their cars - a moment that for many in China's largest and most cosmopolitan city felt like it would never arrive.
Holding bags of vegetables, an elderly local who only gave her surname as Wang, told Reuters she had not stepped out of her home for two months.
"Finally at ease. I stayed at home all day and never went out, I felt sloppy," she said.
Shanghai's ordeal has come to symbolise what critics say is the unsustainability of China's adherence to a zero-COVID policy that aims to cut off every infection chain, at any cost, even as much of the world tries to return to normal despite ongoing infections.
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