People queued on Monday outside fever clinics at China's hospitals to check if they had COVID-19, a new sign of the rapid spread of symptoms after authorities began dismantling stringent measures against the disease.
Three years into the pandemic, China is moving slowly to align with a world that has largely opened up to live with COVID, makingIt has dropped testing prior to many activities, limited quarantine and is preparing on Monday to de-activate a mobile app used to track the travel histories of a population of 1.4 billion people.
Elsewhere in the district, home to foreign embassies and corporate headquarters, about 80 people huddled in the cold outside a fever clinic as ambulances zipped past. But the figures reflect the dropping of testing requirements, say analysts, while Chinese health expects have warned of an imminent surge.
"Please protect yourself," the management of a condominium in the capital's Dongcheng district urged residents on Sunday, adding that almost all its staff had been infected.
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