China’s capital Beijing was busier on Monday as two districts allowed workers to return to their offices, while Shanghai inched closer towards officially lifting a two-month lockdown as COVID-19 cases dipped across China.
Despite the rest of the world learning to live with the virus, China has stuck to a “zero COVID” elimination policy – featuring recurring lockdowns, border closures and mass testing – that has battered the world’s second-largest economy and thrown a wrench in…