[alisonatwork]

In my city in Guangdong we still have lockdown and there hasn't been a significant number of cases in months. Pretty much all businesses have been open since March including bars, restaurants, offices etc but the "temporary" fences erected around neighborhoods are still in place, as are the checkpoints and curfews. Occasionally you will find a lax guard who lets everyone through with just a temperature check, but the stricter guards are still asking for proof of residence, not just from me (obvious foreigner) but also from locals.

To be honest, i suspect the movement restrictions are less about the virus now and more about controlling the "low end population" and other working class people. (Middle class people tend to live in gated communities anyway so the government didn't need to put up fences to control their movements.)

In short, China is definitely still being overly cautious, and it's not just up in the north.