The latest news on Shanghai’s lifting of lockdown in 2022: When will it be lifted? All unblocked on May 18th?

Since May, Shanghai has received a lot of good news regarding its local epidemic situation. Some areas have achieved social zero, residents in the prevention areas can also go out, and resumption of work and production is also underway. But the lifting of the lockdown in Shanghai is also the most concerned issue across the country. So what’s the latest news on Shanghai’s lifting of lockdown? When will the ban be lifted? Is it true that all restrictions will be lifted on May 18?

1. The latest news on Shanghai's lifting of lockdown in 2022

The latest news on Shanghai's unsealing in 2022: Shanghai began to unblock communities in an orderly manner from May 1, and residents within the prevention area can leave the community for activities within a limited range. However, the controlled and sealed areas have not yet been unsealed, and residents are still not allowed to go out. According to the results of Shanghai's phased screening, on May 6, the city was divided into 10,390 lockdown areas, involving a population of about 2.35 million people; and 19,403 control areas, involving a population of about 4.03 million people. Here is the latest news on the lifting of lockdown in some areas of Shanghai:

1. When will Shanghai Pudong New Area be unsealed in 2022?

According to the latest news on May 4, the five towns of Xuanqiao, Nicheng, Datuan, Wanxiang and Laogang in Pudong New Area have basically achieved zero social contact. Residents in the prevention areas can move around in their towns, but residents in the local lockdown and control areas have not yet been unsealed. It is preliminarily estimated that the Pudong New Area will be fully unsealed around the end of May or early June, because the infection density in Pudong New Area is relatively high, and new cases of infection have been reported daily since May.

2. When will Shanghai Jinshan District be unblocked in 2022?

Since April 15, residents in some containment areas in Jinshan District have been released from lockdown. Because Jinshan is one of the first districts in Shanghai to basically achieve dynamic zero social clearance in this round of epidemic, but the whole district is currently working together to take multiple measures to continuously consolidate and deepen the goal of social zero clearance.

3. When will Shanghai Pudong District be unblocked in 2022?

Starting from 8 am on May 6, Taopu District in Putuo District was unsealed. Each household can designate one person to go out once a day. The person is not allowed to go across towns or borrow the person's ID card. Violators will have their ID card taken back, and no replacement will be issued if lost.

4. When will Songjiang District, Shanghai be unsealed in 2022?

Songjiang District has gradually lifted the lockdown on residents in the containment zone since early May. It was learned from the Economic Commission of Songjiang District, Shanghai that 12 large supermarkets and more than 100 community supermarkets have resumed offline operations, and residents from the containment zone have entered the stores to purchase in an orderly manner in accordance with the supermarkets' epidemic prevention requirements.

2. When will Shanghai be unsealed in 2022?

Shanghai is expected to welcome the good news of fully lifting the lockdown around the end of May or early June, but the specific details will depend on the daily epidemic reports. If Shanghai achieves zero social contact by mid-May, meaning no new cases are reported, the good news of fully lifting the lockdown will be welcomed around the end of the month. On the contrary, if it does not appear, it means that the unblocking time will also be extended. Considering the current epidemic situation in Shanghai, it is possible that the lockdown will be fully lifted around the end of June, as the number of new cases reported locally in early May was still relatively high. However, in the short term, we will gradually receive the good news that some areas will be unsealed. The following three conditions are met for these areas to be unblocked:

1. There are no new cases or asymptomatic infections in the area in the past 14 days.

2. The last close contact in the area has been more than 14 days since the last exposure and the nucleic acid test is negative.

3. Two days before the lockdown, all personnel in the area completed a round of nucleic acid screening, and all results were negative.

3. Will Shanghai be fully unsealed on May 18, 2022?

It is impossible for Shanghai to lift all the lockdown on May 18, but there will be good news that some areas will be lifted around May 18. The specific details will depend on the notification arrangements of each area. Because it is impossible for Shanghai to fully lift the lockdown on May 10th, according to the latest report from Shanghai today, on May 8th, there were 322 new confirmed local cases and 3,625 asymptomatic infections. In addition, there are 13 medium-risk areas in Shanghai, distributed in Huangpu District, Minhang District, Jiading District, Pudong New Area and Chongming District.

In general, the latest news about Shanghai's lifting of the lockdown in 2022 is that the community will be lifted for residents within the prevention area from May 1, and it is expected that Shanghai will usher in the good news of full lifting of the lockdown around the end of May or early June, but it is unlikely that all lockdowns will be lifted on May 18.