China eased some of its heavy-handed COVID rules, including shortening quarantines by two days for close contacts of infected people and for inbound travellers, and removing a penalty for airlines for bringing in too many cases
The easing of rules comes even as case numbers in China surge to their highest since April, with Beijing and the central city of Zhengzhou seeing record tallies, and numerous cities widened localised lockdowns and other measures, including in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou.
The news was greeted with both excitement and wariness among Chinese citizens fed-up with nearly three years of COVID curbs, which are taking a mounting toll on the world's second-largest economy. The NHC also said it would develop a plan to accelerate vaccinations, which experts say is crucially needed before the country can begin more fully dialling-back a zero-COVID policy that has made China a global outlier.
"But the big question looming over all of us is when is China ready to actually start a vaccination campaign that gives them the herd immunity to really open up the country?" The city of Guangzhou - a manufacturing and transport hub and the epicentre of China's current COVID fight - reported 2,824 new local cases for Thursday, the fourth day in which infections exceeded 2,000.
The cities of Beijing, Zhengzhou and Chongqing also tightened measures as daily cases rose to around all-time highs.
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