China's COVID curbs intensify as cases surge to highest since Shanghai lockdown
The loosening of the rules, which came a day after China's new Politburo Standing Committee discussed COVID during a meeting chaired by President Xi Jinping, cheered markets, with Shanghai's benchmark CSI 300Under the new rules, centralised quarantine times for close contacts and travellers from abroad were shortened from seven days to five days. The requirement for three further days in home isolation after centralised quarantine remains.
The NHC also said it would develop a plan to accelerate vaccinations, which experts say is widely needed before the country can begin more fully dialing-back of a zero-COVID policy that has made China a global outlier and inflicted significant economic costs. "All residents are required to stay at home," the district government said in a statement. "Only one person in each household is allowed to buy daily necessities on a staggered schedule."
In some cases, construction cranes have been used to deliver food to students locked in multi-storey dorms, he said.
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