If you want to know what the government's plan is, look at what it does rather than what it says.
Workers remove medical waste from a Beijing building where some people with Covid are being allowed to quarantine at home
This does not mean that all Covid-related restrictions have ended. It also does not mean some restrictions won't be around in, say, half a year.The new plan appears to be to slow the spread of the virus, hopefully enabling the health system to cope, rather than trying crush the disease. Shandong province in the east will no longer require checks to buy cough medicine or drive on a highway; central Henan Province will no longer require PCR tests to enter housing communities.
Just a few weeks ago, the Chinese government was urging the population to stay the course with the zero-Covid approach. There have not been such widespread acts of public defiance against the party since the 1989 political upheaval which led to the bloody crackdown in and around Tiananmen Square. All this has led to a government that had drastically underestimated public anger at its Covid measures now abruptly changing tack.Beijingers no longer need a negative PCR test to travel on public transport
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