China announced Wednesday a nationwide loosening of Covid restrictions following protests against the hardline strategy that grew into calls for greater political freedoms.
BEIJING, China —
Lockdowns will also be scaled down and people with non-severe Covid cases can isolate at home instead of centralised government facilities. “People travelling across provinces do not need to provide a 48h test result and do not need to test upon arrival.” Rare demonstrations against the ruling Communist Party’s zero-Covid strategy broke out across China late last month.
The capital Beijing, where many businesses have fully reopened, said this week that commuters were no longer required to show a negative virus test taken within 48 hours to use public transport. The prevalent Omicron strain is “not at all like last year’s Delta variant”, Guangzhou-based medicine professor Chong Yutian said in an article published by the Communist Party-run China Youth Daily.
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