Shenzhen has released a set of key criteria for lifting COVID-19 restrictions in its lockdown and control areas.

Lin Hancheng, spokesperson of the city’s COVID-19 prevention and control headquarters, said at a press conference yesterday that there are three conditions to be met at the same time before COVID restrictions are lifted in lockdown and control areas.

They are: 1) no new cases or asymptomatic infections in the areas were reported in the last 14 days; 2) At least 14 days have passed since the last close contact found in the areas was exposed to COVID, or the close contact has been put under centralized quarantine for over four days with negative nucleic acid test results; and 3) In two days before lockdown restrictions are lifted, all residents in the areas have completed a round of nucleic acid testing and the results are negative.