Multiple Chinese cities have cancelled routine mass Covid tests this week. theSun theSundaily China COVID19 mass tests
November 15, 2022 shows a health worker taking a swab sample from a man to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a swab collection station in Beijing. AFPPIX: Multiple Chinese cities have cancelled routine mass Covid tests this week, days after Beijing announced limited relaxations of its strict zero-Covid policy which raised hopes of China's eventual reopening.
Routine mass PCR testing is one of the key tools used to trace outbreaks, with cities such as Beijing and Shanghai requiring residents to show 72-hour test results to enter public spaces and use public transport. However, officials caveated that it will “only be carried out when the source of infection and transmission chain are unclear, and it has been spreading in the community for a long time”, echoing language from the NHC announcement.
Residents would still require a 72-hour test result to use public transport and to access key sites such as hotels, according to local media reports. “I’m speechless, why doesn’t the whole country open up instead of using Shijiazhuang as an experimental site?” one local resident wrote on Weibo.
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