China Covid: Xi’s face-saving exit from his signature policy
If you want to know what the government’s Covid plan is in China, look at what it does rather than what it says.
Take Beijing for example.
There has not been a significant drop in infections, yet public transport now no longer requires a PCR test result, bars and restaurants are slowly re-opening, and in some cases people are being allowed to isolate at home after catching Covid instead of going into centralised quarantine facilities.
From Tuesday test results are no longer needed to go into supermarkets, office buildings and some other public venues.
So when you examine what is happening here right now, the trajectory seems clear – the government appears to have quietly dumped zero Covid as a goal.
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Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-63857194
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