It’s been just reported that China managed to reopen more areas amidst measures of covid relaxation. Check out the latest exciting reports below.
China reveals new covid measures
It’s been just revealed that China has slashed the number of locations that are deemed at high risk of wider covid outbreaks, re-opening locked down areas, including one hosting a key factory of an Apple supplier.
“The number of high-risk areas tumbled to around 4,500 on Monday, official data showed, down 85% from more than 30,000 on Dec. 7 before the latest policy shift was announced,” according to the latest reports.
A district in the city of Zhengzhou in central China where iPhone supplier Foxconn has a vast facility declared on Monday that it had released all high-risk zones from lockdown.
“Last month, thousands of workers fled the Foxconn facility on fears of COVID lockdowns, curtailing production. High-risk areas without new infections for five consecutive days should be released from lockdown, according to one of China’s latest protocols released on Dec. 7.”
Local authorities have also been warned not to expand the scope of lockdowns or prolong them arbitrarily.
China makes new covid-related moves
The latest reports just revealed that China said Monday it would retire an app used to track travel to areas with covid cases, a milestone in the country’s rapid turn away from its zero-tolerance coronavirus strategy.
Accoridng to the new reports, it seems that Beijing has effectively thrown in the towel on zero-covid, last week announcing an end to large-scale lockdowns, mandatory quarantine in central facilities, and a broad relaxation of testing measures.
It’s also important to note the fact that the central government is now beginning to unwind years of hardline policymaking, with the state-run “Communications Itinerary Card”, which tracks whether someone has been to a high-risk area based on their phone signal, to go offline at 12 am Tuesday.
