Shanghai reopens after two months of Covid lockdown – in pictures

Restrictions have eased and more than 22 million people are allowed to move around the city again

Main image: People drink on a street, as the city prepares to end the lockdown placed to curb the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters

  • Residents gather for photos as it nears midnight on the eve of the lifting of the Covid-19 lockdown in Shanghai.
    Residents gather for photos as it nears midnight on the eve of the lifting of the Covid-19 lockdown in Shanghai.

  • People wearing masks exercise along the Bund as day breaks after a two-month Covid-19 lockdown
    People wearing masks exercise along the bund as day breaks after a two-month COVID-19 lockdown

  • Workers remove quarantine barricades
    Workers remove quarantine barricades

  • Riders wearing face masks return to the streets
    Riders wearing face masks return to the streets

  • A woman takes photos along the Bund as day breaks
    A woman takes photos along the Bund as day breaks

  • Staff members wait at an entrance to enter a shopping mall
    Staff members wait at an entrance to enter a shopping mall

  • A store serving breakfast opens
    A store serving breakfast opens

  • An officer takes a pictures of another officer while controlling the traffic in the Jing’an district of Shanghai
    An officer takes a pictures of another officer while controlling the traffic in the Jing’an district of Shanghai

  • People travel on a subway in the Jing’an district of Shanghai
    People travel on a subway in the Jing’an district of Shanghai

  • Women talk in a park at the end of the two month lockdown
    Women talk in a park at the end of the two month lockdown

  • People wearing face masks visit the Bund, after the lockdown placed to curb the coronavirus outbreak was lifted in Shanghai
    People wearing face masks visit the Bund, after the lockdown placed to curb the coronavirus outbreak was lifted in Shanghai

  • A man takes his dog out grocery shopping
    A man takes his dog out grocery shopping
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