Beijing vowed to take 'baby steps' easing coronavirus containment measures, and kept watch on possible protests ahead of a state funeral for former president Jiang Zemin.
canceling mass testing and allowing some close contacts to quarantine at home. But measures that have long been phased out elsewhere in the world, such as testing requirements to access public entertainments spaces, remained in the southern economic hub of Guangzhou.Urumqi, the capital of China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, Friday announced a phased reopening of restaurants, malls and ski resorts in the coming days.
Some local leaders in China’s rust-belt regions have been more reluctant to loosen controls, in part because zero covid was linked with loyalty to President Xi Jinping, who has tried toAuthorities in Jinzhou, a coastal city in northeastern China, issued a notice Thursday pledging commitment to the policy. “If we keep with the existing measures for another few days, we can announce a full victory … it would be such a shame when we can eliminate the virus but don’t do it,” the notice read.
Top Chinese officials have not directly acknowledged the rallies, which are the largest non-state-sanctioned demonstrations since the Tiananmen protests of 1989. But they have made the unsupported accusation that hostile foreign forces were meddling with social order. A senior health official also said Tuesday that the public had no issue with zero covid, but were unhappy about how local governments implemented the policy.
Search engines and other internet companies were also told to block access to virtual private networks , according to a memo purportedly from China’s internet regulator that circulated online. The Washington Post could not immediately authenticate the memo, but the Wall Street Journal
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