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		</div><p>Shoppers returned to the malls of Beijing on Sunday as the Chinese capital relaxed pandemic restrictions after declaring a small but persistent Covid-19 outbreak effectively under control.</p>
<p>A partial reopening of stores and offices in Beijing was welcomed by weary residents and struggling shopkeepers eager for life to return to normal.</p>
<p>Coupled with a gradual easing of restrictions in Shanghai, it signalled that the worst is over in the twin outbreaks in China’s most prominent cities.</p>
<p>The lockdowns and other restrictions under China’s “zero-Covid” strategy have increasingly frustrated residents as they saw other countries ease curbs and reopen their borders.</p>
<p>Some have resisted and staged protests at apartment complexes and university dormitories, in an authoritarian country where people think twice about speaking out publicly because of possible repercussions.</p>
<p>Restaurants remain closed in Beijing, except for takeaways and deliveries, and many people in Shanghai can still only go out with special passes and for a limited time period, even as the number of new cases has plummeted.</p>
<p>Officials tend to err on the side of caution under a system that readily punishes them for lax enforcement if outbreaks flare up or come back.</p>
<p>China recorded 293 new cases on Saturday, of which 78 were among people who had arrived from overseas. Shanghai had the most non-imported cases, with 122 and Beijing 21 among a population of more than 20 million people in both cities.</p>
<p>Beijing allowed public parks, gyms and cinemas to reopen on Sunday, all at 50% of their capacity. A portion of the Great Wall in a rural part of Beijing, about 40 miles (60km) from the city centre, reopens to visitors on Monday.</p>
<p>City spokesman Xu Hejian said on Saturday that sporadic cases are still being found in some districts, but they are within a controllable range.</p>
<p>“This round of outbreak has been put under effective control,” he said.</p>
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