Beijing returned to work after a five-day Labour Day holiday with China's capital on high COVID alert as it tries to eradicate an outbreak
Authorities in Beijing are determined to avoid the fate of China's commercial hub of Shanghai, where most of its 25 million people have endured more than a month of increasingly frustrating confinement to their residential compounds.
Under a host of new curbs in recent days, Beijing residents hoping to take the subway or bus have to have a negative COVID test but it appeared that few checks were being made. The apparent success in keeping a lid on the outbreak has enabled authorities to make small adjustments to restrictions. In Shanghai, while authorities say curbs on movement have been gradually eased in recent days in more areas, there was no significant change for many people living in communities under lockdown.
Officials point to millions of COVID deaths outside China while its official death toll since the virus emerged in the central city of Wuhan in late 2019 is just over 5,000.
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