Chinese officials have said the country will end quarantine for travellers from January 8, as the country exits its 'zero-Covid' policy.
Covid-19 infections have rocketed after restrictions were lifted there, with hospitals overwhelmed and elderly people dying, according to reports.
Officials have stopped releasing Covid data, so the true extent of daily cases and deaths is currently unknown.On Sunday, Beijing said it would no longer be publishing case numbers at all.However, British health data company Airfinity has estimated that the country was seeing over a million infections and 5,000 daily deaths.
China is the last of the world's major economies to adopt "living with Covid" following closed borders, three years of lockdown restrictions, and mandatory quarantine for Covid cases and their contacts. Known as its 'zero-Covid' approach, the measures hit the economy hard, and left Chinese citizens weary of repeated tests and restrictions.
In late November there was unusual public protest as were rare widespread demonstrations took place against the policy in major cities, and the authorities dropped Covid curbs only a few weeks later.
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