Business Maverick: China to ease quarantine, mass testing in nationwide Covid move

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China is set to announce a further relaxation of Covid control measures as soon as today — including allowing some infected people to home quarantine as a nationwide policy, and reining in unnecessary testing — according to people familiar with the ...

in recent weeks, and left the world’s second-largest economy increasingly isolated from the rest of the world, which has mostly moved on from the pandemic., the capital, as centralised quarantine facilities ran out of space amid surging cases. Expanding the rule nationwide so quickly represents a major shift away from a bedrock practice of the elimination strategy.

When the virus first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in 2019, it was only when authorities started moving all infected people into quarantine camps that the outbreak was stamped out. It soon became a central tenet in places that managed to eliminate spread in the first phase of the pandemic, from Singapore to Australia.

Reuters earlier reported that 10 new Covid easing measures would be announced this week and reopening rumours have continued to swirl among Chinese investors, sparking the best monthly rally in Hong Kong-listed Chinese stocks in November since 2003. The proposed moves also suggest the government is willing to tolerate higher case numbers to avoid more social and economic turmoil. The nation reported 24,440 cases for Tuesday, down from 27,164 for Monday, though that may understate the actual total given the end of mass testing drives. Infections have fallen each of the past nine days since peaking at a record 38,808 on 27 November.

The willingness to abide by high case numbers is a far cry from earlier in the year, when neighbourhoods or entire cities were locked down at the emergence of a single case. Shanghai endured a gruelling

 

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