Shanghai faces ‘relatively high’ risk of further COVID community spread

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Updated: Jul 8, 2022, 08:06 GMT+00:00

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's commercial hub Shanghai faces a "relatively high" risk of further community transmission of COVID-19, Lei Zhenglong, an official at the National Health Commission, said on Friday.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s commercial hub Shanghai faces a “relatively high” risk of further community transmission of COVID-19, Lei Zhenglong, an official at the National Health Commission, said on Friday.

Shanghai reopened most cinemas on Friday, sticking to a plan of gradual resumption of daily activities after lifting a two-month COVID-19 lockdown in June, while also trying, like several other Chinese cities, to contain resurgent infections.

(Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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