In an abrupt change of policy, China this month began dismantling the world’s strictest Covid regime of lockdowns and extensive testing. theSun theSundaily China Covid restrictions lockdowns covid
A health worker uses her phone as she waits for people at a nucleic acid testing booth in Beijing on December 27, 2022. AFPPIX: Chinese hospitals were under intense pressure on Wednesday as a surge of Covid-19 infections strained resources in the last major country to move towards treating the virus as endemic.
The speed at which Covid rules have been scrapped has left China’s fragile health system overwhelmed and prompted countries around the world, which have been “living with the virus”, to consider travel restrictions for Chinese visitors. “I’ve been doing this job for 30 years and this is the busiest I have ever known it,” said one ambulance driver outside the hospital who declined to be identified.
Pictures published by the state-run China Daily showed rows of mostly elderly patients, some breathing through oxygen tubes, receiving treatment from medical staff in white hazmat suits in the hospital’s intensive care unit.In a major step towards freer travel, China will stop requiring inbound travellers to go into quarantine from Jan 8, authorities said this week, prompting many Chinese, cut off from the world for so long, to check travel platforms.
Asked about the travel requirements imposed by Japan and India, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday “Covid measures should be scientific, moderate and should not affect the normal flow of individuals”.China’s US$17 trillion economy is expected to suffer a slowdown in factory output and domestic consumption as workers and shoppers fall ill.
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