Several major cities have loosened the constraints despite a continued rise in coronavirus cases.
A man undergoes a routine COVID-19 test Nov. 29 at a site in Beijing. Chinese universities had been sending students home as the ruling Communist Party tightened coronavirus controls and tried to prevent more protests over"zero COVID" restrictions and calls for President Xi Jinping to resign.China has signaled that it might ease its “zero COVID” policy in apparent response to an unprecedented surge of protests across the country even though cases continue to climb.
However, Sun did not mention President Xi Jinping’s “dynamic zero-COVID” policy that has guided China’s pandemic response since the pandemic began in January 2020. The policy has been in place to keep coronavirus cases in China as close to zero as possible, setting China apart from countries that have tried to flatten the curve or slow the virus’s spread, and then to eventually lift the restrictions.
Hundreds of SUVs, vans and armored vehicles with flashing lights lined city streets Wednesday as police and paramilitary forces conducted random ID checks and searched mobile phones for protest images, banned apps and other evidence of rebellion.
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