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🇨🇳 China loosened some Covid restrictions across the country following anti-government protests. In the central city of Zhengzhou, where some 200,000 employees live and work in “iPhone City” for Apple supplier Foxconn, authorities lifted a five-day lockdown. Residents of the southern city of Guangzhou returned to work yesterday for the first time in weeks, and in Chongqing, a city of 32 million in southwest China, officials announced an end to mass Covid testing and lifted lockdowns across half the city.

🇪🇺✈️ Starting next year, passengers on flights within the EU won’t be required to place any 5G-enabled phone, laptop, or other device into airplane mode. The European Commission announced the change this week, after setting aside a specific 5G frequency band that won’t interfere with any electronic devices on the plane. The service likely won’t be free, since it involves connecting to networks from multiple countries, which generates roaming costs.

🇺🇦 Nearly 7.9 million Ukrainians have moved to neighboring countries since late February, when Russia invaded the country. That’s per a new estimate from the UN Refugee Agency published yesterday. Separately, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said at least 6,655 Ukrainian civilians have died and 10,368 have been injured over that same period, with most of the casualties attributed to Russian missile strikes.

+More Russia/Ukraine news: The EU asked its 27 member-states yesterday to cap the price of Russian oil at $60 per barrel, well under the current international average of $87/barrel.