Take a Walk Outside: Shanghai Residents Proclaim Lockdown is Lifted

Police officers wearing protective gear control access to a tunnel near Pudong district during the lockdown in Shanghai on March 28, 2022. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

Residents of a Shanghai high-end community, called Huixianju, proclaim the lockdown is lifted. They went outside and walked around their streets. The slogan, “Walk Out, Huixianju” went viral online.

Shanghai is divided into three zones based on “antigen+nucleic acid” screening results: the closed control areas, currently involving a population of 2.3 million; the control areas, involving a population of 3.62 million; and the prevention areas, involving a population of 17.37 million, as the officials announced on May 9.