{"id":519252,"date":"2022-12-01T16:20:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T13:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/china-easing-zero-covid-policy-after-protests\/"},"modified":"2022-12-01T16:20:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T13:20:31","slug":"china-easing-zero-covid-policy-after-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/china-easing-zero-covid-policy-after-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"#China easing &#8216;zero-COVID&#8217; policy after protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d3fb43ea71\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" 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detected case.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the National Health Commission, Sun said that it was time to change the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach nearly three years after the contagion was first detected in Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country is facing a new situation and new tasks in epidemic prevention and control as the pathogenicity of the Omicron virus weakens, more people are vaccinated and experience in containing the virus is accumulated,\u201d Sun said in comments reported in state <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/china-loosen-covid-restrictions-05.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Officials in hazmat suits in China.\" class=\"wp-image-24853089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/china-loosen-covid-restrictions-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/china-loosen-covid-restrictions-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/china-loosen-covid-restrictions-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The easing comes after nearly three years of brutal lockdowns that see whole cities shuttered over even just one case.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sun also urged further \u201coptimization\u201d of testing, treatment and quarantine policies, according to the state-run Xinhua <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> agency.<\/p>\n<p>Unusually, there was no mention of the country\u2019s cornerstone \u201czero-COVID\u201d approach, and acknowledgment of the weakening risk was a sharp contrast to signaling over most of the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>Sources told Reuters that official announcements of further nationwide policy changes will be made in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSun\u2019s speech, in addition to the notable easing of COVID control measures \u2026 sends yet another strong signal that the zero-COVID policy will end within the next few months,\u201d analysts at Nomura said in a research note.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese two events perhaps point to the beginning of the end of zero-COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/china-loosen-covid-restrictions-09.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Beijing residents tested in the street before they can get on a bus.\" class=\"wp-image-24853107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/china-loosen-covid-restrictions-09.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/china-loosen-covid-restrictions-09.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/china-loosen-covid-restrictions-09.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Several cities announced the end to measures that include daily testing.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ANZ Research analysts also told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the remarks \u201ccould signal that China is beginning to consider the end of its stringent zero-Covid policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that Chinese authorities are shifting to a \u2018living with Covid\u2019 stance, as reflected in new rules that allow people to do \u2018home isolation\u2019 instead of being ferried away to quarantine facilities,\u201d the analysts said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/china-loosen-covid-restrictions-13.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"People traveling by bus in Guangzhou.\" class=\"wp-image-24853099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/china-loosen-covid-restrictions-13.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/china-loosen-covid-restrictions-13.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/china-loosen-covid-restrictions-13.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The changes have already allowed more freedom in several areas, including Guangzhou, where 24 hours earlier protesters clashed with riot cops. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">CNS\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The change came after protests that started last week quickly turned from anger at the policies to calls for President Xi Jinping to step down.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, there have been 51 protests across 24 cities, according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) \u2014 the most since the 1989 uprising calling for democracy ended in bloodshed in Tiananmen Square.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"728\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/china-loosen-covid-restrictions-01.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"ASPI map of the protests.\" class=\"wp-image-24853095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/china-loosen-covid-restrictions-01.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/china-loosen-covid-restrictions-01.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/china-loosen-covid-restrictions-01.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The historic uprising saw 51 protests in 34 cities.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ASPI<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Late Tuesday, protesters clashed with hazmat suit-wearing cops in Guangzhou \u2014 one of the areas that then lifted temporary lockdowns within 24 hours of the alarming scenes.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in at least seven districts of the sprawling manufacturing hub said they were lifting temporary lockdowns, with one allowing the reopening of schools, restaurants and businesses, including cinemas.<\/p>\n<p>Cities including Chongqing and Zhengzhou also announced easings.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese capital, Beijing, also said it would scale back daily testing requirements \u2014 a tedious mainstay of life under zero-Covid.<\/p>\n<p>The elderly, those who work from home, students and teachers in online education and others who do not leave home frequently are now exempt from daily tests, officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing residents still require a negative Covid test taken within 48 hours to enter public places such as cafes, restaurants and shopping malls, however.<\/p>\n<p>With a heavy police presence across many cities, there was no indication of protests on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The easing of restrictions comes despite China battling its worst COVID-19 outbreak of the past three years, having earlier credited the \u201czero-COVID\u201d approach for containing the contagion.<\/p>\n<p>The country reported 35,800 domestic covid cases on Thursday, most of them asymptomatic.<\/p>\n<p><em>With Post wires<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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