In recent days Beijing, Shanghai and many other cities announced that they would no longer require residents to show a recent negative test to enter shopping malls or to use public transport
the official data, the latest outbreak of covid-19 is waning in China. The number of new cases has fallen recently, to fewer than 30,000 a day, from a peak of more than 40,000 in late November. But that is probably because fewer people are being tested. Anecdotal evidence suggests that more Chinese are catching the disease, increasing the risk of a very large wave . That is a troubling prospect for China’s undervaccinated population.
Efforts to quarantine all positive cases are also being eased. In several cities, close contacts of cases and people with mild symptoms have been allowed to isolate at home and test themselves. Reuters, a news agency, has reported that this could soon become a national policy. Allowing home quarantine may sound like a small concession to those fed up with zero-covid.
Few, if any, such segments have aired since the beginning of December, though. Instead state media are saying that the Omicron variant is not so scary after all, pointing to the low number of deaths and severe cases it has caused so far in China. State-run newspapers have begun publishing interviews with doctors who say there is “no evidence” that long covid exists.
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