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Masks and Rules Return to Shanghai Banks Preparing for the Worst
- Restrictions return in first major financial hub to tame virus
- China has seen outbreak of fast-moving delta variant
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A year after becoming the world’s first major financial center to tame the virus, Shanghai is going back on high alert.
The fast-moving delta variant outbreak across China forced some global banks and local financial institutions to bring back the containment playbook. Shanghai’s more than 470,000 finance professionals, who have nearly all been back at work and mask-free since the middle of last year, now face regular temperature scans and checks to enable contact tracing. At some banks, people were told to put their masks back on in common areas and hosting visitors in conference rooms was prohibited again.