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Health officials are concerned that people traveling home to their villages for the Lunar New Year could turn celebrations into superspreader events, catching ill-prepared rural systems off guard.
When Chinese people woke up on Tuesday morning, many shared their excitement on social media for the long-awaited relaxation of the epidemic control measures as the Chinese top health authority announced late on Monday it would downgrade COVID-19 management and reopen the country's borders, to be effective on January 8, 2023. After three years fight against the pandemic, some considered the ending of COVID-19 quarantines and reopening borders as the best New Year gift, which will also be a major turning point in the country's fight against the virus.
President Xi Jinping has admitted that China needs to tackle Covid in a 'more targeted way' as the country reopens to a surge of '5,000 deaths a day', after years of draconian lockdowns.
People are waiting in line at crowded morgues, wondering what to do with the body of relatives who have just died of COVID.
“We probably have to wait until February or March before things return to normal