Cars roar down the streets. Dog walkers roam through city parks. Luxury malls open their doors and light up.
Sixty-five days later, Shanghai has finally come back to life—but normality seems a distance away.
On June 1, officials reopened shops, restaurants, buses, trains, and offices to many of the cities’ 25 million, who had been cooped up in their apartments for more than two months.
The prolonged lockdown of China’s most cosmopolitan city has caused shortages of food and daily necessities. Non-COVID patients struggled to obtain medicine or emergency care. Residents, including the elderly and children, suffered fears of being separated from their families and sent to quarantine facilities….