China To Begin Reopening To The World In January
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China will scrap quarantine for travelers from 8 January, officials said,
marking the last major shift from the country’s zero-Covid policy.
After three years of closed borders, this will effectively reopen
the country to those with work and study visas, or seeking to visit
family.
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But it comes as China struggles with the virus’ ferocious spread in the
wake of restrictions being lifted.
Reports says hospitals are
overwhelmed and elderly people are dying, BBC reports.
The true
toll – daily case counts and deaths – is currently unknown because officials
have stopped releasing Covid data.
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Beijing had reported about 4,000 new Covid infections each day last week and
few deaths.
On Sunday it said it would stop publishing case
numbers altogether. But British health data firm Airfinity estimated China was
experiencing more than a million infections and 5,000 deaths a day, according
to Reuters.
China is the last major economy in the world to move to
“living with Covid” after three years of lockdowns, closed borders and
mandatory quarantine for Covid cases and contacts.
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