Month: April 2022

Tesla officially restarted production at its Shanghai plant on Tuesday after a three-week shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic resurgence. The United States electric-car maker has got about 8,000 staff back to work so far, after local authorities released a guideline on Saturday for enterprises to...

The list of the city’s locked-down, controlled and precautionary areas has been updated based on results of the latest screenings, Wu Qianyu, a senior official of the Shanghai Health Commission, said yesterday. The number of residents in newly designated locked-down areas, where positive cases have been...

Two suburban districts in Shanghai achieved the dynamic zero-COVID-19 goal yesterday amid the declining trend in the city’s pandemic resurgence. Jinshan and Chongming districts hit the target on a community level, according to Wu Qianyu, a senior health commission official. The target means the resurgence is...

The Shanghai Charity Foundation received more than 2,000 boxes of vegetables from Ningbo in Zhejiang Province on April 17, among which were over 140 bottles of braised bamboo shoots, together with a letter from “an old man who loves Shanghai.” The writer of the letter, a...

The world’s top cranberry brand Ocean Spray has answered Shanghai Daily’s call to donate 100 boxes of dried cranberry snacks to a local COVID-19 makeshift hospital, mainly housing infected children and their parents. The 9,600 packs of dried cranberries with reduced sugar have been delivered to...

The Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2022, originally scheduled for June 29 to July 1, will be postponed due to the local COVID-19 resurgence, its organizer said. “We continue to work with health and government authorities on the delivery of the next safe and successful MWC Shanghai,”...

In its race against the latest COVID-19 outbreaks, China is making all-out efforts to bring life back to normal with fine-tuned virus control measures. Responding to sporadic outbreaks in some 30 provincial areas in the country since March, China has been adhering to a dynamic zero-COVID...

A NEW makeshift hospital in Shanghai began admitting COVID-19 patients and asymptomatic cases on Wednesday, the city’s health authorities announced. The makeshift hospital has been built at the Shanghai International Circuit in suburban Jiading District, which hosts the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix. It has a...