China has announced a series of measures rolling back some of its most draconian anti-COVID-19 restrictions.
— In a sharp reversal, China has announced a series of measures rolling back some of its most draconian anti-In a 10-point announcement on Wednesday, the National Health Commission stipulated that COVID-19 tests and a clean bill of health displayed on a smartphone app would no longer be required, apart from vulnerable areas such as nurseries, elderly care facilities and schools.
China has sought to maintain the hardline policies while keeping the world's second-largest economy humming, but public frustration with the restrictions appears to have finally swayed the opinion of officials who had championed"zero-COVID" as superior to the approach of foreign nations that have opened up in hopes of learning to live with the virus.
Orders for businesses and transport companies to suspend services will be lifted and greater attention will be paid to public safety, with fire exits no longer blocked due to lockdown orders.The protests began Nov. 25 after at least 10 people died in a fire in an apartment building in Urumqi in the northwest. Authorities denied suggestions that firefighters or victims were blocked by locked doors or other anti-virus controls. But the disaster became a focus of public frustration.
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