Beijing, Shanghai residents back to work as China eases into living with Covid

After years of ruthless anti-coronavirus curbs, President Xi Jinping scrapped the country’s zero-Covid policy in the face of protests and a widening outbreak. theSun thesundaily China Beijing Shanghai Covid19 zeroCovidpolicy

: Mask-wearing Beijing and Shanghai commuters crowded subway trains on Monday, with China’s two biggest cities moving closer to living with Covid-19, as millions have been infected with the virus across the country.

Subway trains in Beijing and Shanghai were packed, while some major traffic arteries in the two cities jammed with slow-moving cars on Monday as residents commuted to work. China is the last major country to move toward treating Covid as endemic. Its containment measures had slowed the $17-trillion economy to its lowest growth rate in nearly half a century, disrupting global supply chains and trade.

China has narrowed its definition for classifying deaths as Covid-related, counting only those involving Covid-caused pneumonia or respiratory failure, raising eyebrows among world health experts. Health authorities in the southeastern Jiangxi province have said infections would hit an apex in early January, adding that there could be other peaks as people travel next month for Lunar New Year celebrations, state media reported.

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