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Less than a month after easing pandemic restrictions, China reinstated some “zero covid” policies in a bid for a new wave of infections sweeping across the country.
Covid-19 cases have risen almost every day since last October, and China recently recorded its first coronavirus death in months. In response, the government closed businesses, resumed citywide closures and reinstated requirements for regular testing.
China is the first country to continue to make excessive efforts to eliminate COVID-19 infections, raising questions about when, if at all, its economy could fully reopen.
The photographs below show scenes across a country once disrupted by lockdowns.
The barriers formed a security checkpoint in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, in southern China, earlier this month. Below, a swab pattern for the covid-19 test in Beijing on Tuesday.
Red fences block public recreation spaces and exercise machines near the Futian district border crossing in Shenzhen.
A grocery shopping mall opened in Shenzhen’s Nanshan district, home to many tech companies.
A padlock blocked the front of a bar in Xiasha village in Shenzhen.
On Tuesday in Beijing, a woman waited to cross a nearly empty intersection at rush hour in the central business district. Most staff now have to work from home and many offices are closed.
Earlier this month, an employee in protective gear watched steel barriers being closed as part of Beijing’s covid-19 testing.
A coronavirus test in Beijing.
Residents queue for the regime at a Beijing site.
People took cover for covid-19 tests in a tunnel in Beijing’s central business district this month.
Security guards outside a popular Beijing grocery shopping district on Sunday after department stores and restaurants closed.
Staff members sat down to eat at a dining place that closed for indoor dining in Beijing.
A with bars closed in Beijing on Sunday.
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