China eases controls, gives no sign when 'zero COVID' ends
China is easing some of the world’s most stringent anti-COVID controls and authorities say new variants are weaker
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China is easing some of the world’s most stringent anti-COVID controls and authorities say new variants are weaker
The move comes after rare demonstrations against the government broke out in several major cities against the country's harsh anti-COVID policies.
Unnamed expert tells state media outlet Yicai that Covid could be downgraded from a category A disease to category C
Commuters in Beijing and at least 16 other cities were allowed to board buses and subway trains without a virus test from the previous 48 hours.
BEIJING--Conditions for China to downgrade its management of COVID-19 as a serious contagious disease improving as the coronavirus weakens, state media outlet Yicai reported, among the first to float the idea.