Centralised quarantine times for close contacts and travellers from abroad have been shortened from seven to five days
An epidemic control worker wears protective equipment as he guards a fenced off area of a locked down community on November 11, 2022 in Beijing, China. Picture: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
China will also stop trying to identify “secondary” contacts — a major annoyance for residents of cities who are caught up in sweeping contact-tracing efforts when a case is found — while still identifying close contacts. But Bruce Pang, chief economist at Jones Lang Lasalle, said some interpretations of the new rules and what they might mean for prospects for a full opening were “too optimistic”.The news was greeted with both excitement and wariness among Chinese citizens fed-up with nearly three years of Covid-19 curbs, which are also taking a mounting toll on the world's second-largest economy.“It depends on how the localities execute.
The new steps include ending a “circuit breaker”, under which airlines faced a suspension of flights if they brought in too many Covid-19-infected passengers, a system that caused frequent cancellations. Still, international flights remain at a small fraction of pre-Covid-19 levels. Authorities reported 10,535 new domestically transmitted cases for Thursday, the most since April 29, when Shanghai was battling its most serious outbreak under strict lockdown.
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