People with COVID-19 symptoms in one of China's largest cities can now go to work "as normal," state media reported Monday, a dramatic reversal in a country where a single case could previously send thousands into lockdown.
This photo taken on November 22, 2022 shows employees working at a makeshift hospital that will be used for COVID-19 patients in China's southwestern city of Chongqing. CNS/ AFP
And with authorities admitting the outbreak is "impossible" to track, the southern megacity of Chongqing—home to around 32 million people—became one of the first parts of China to let people work normally even with visible symptoms, the Chongqing Daily reported Monday, citing a notice from municipal authorities.
Local governments across China have generally encouraged people to isolate at home while recovering from the disease—a dramatic shift from the previous policy of herding people into state quarantine facilities. Visits to hospitals and clinics surged in the days following China's lifting of restrictions, though the World Health Organization said the virus was already spreading widely in the country as "the control measures in themselves were not stopping the disease."
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