• China’s zero-Covid policy has taken a heavy toll on the economy and the lives of common people.
• Public apathy toward lockdowns and travel restrictions is growing.
• More than 10,500 new Covid cases were reported on Thursday, the highest daily number since April.

Despite the fact that the number of Covid cases is at its highest point in months, Beijing has somewhat loosened some of its prohibitions.

The seven-day state-mandated quarantine period for close interactions will be reduced to five days in a facility and three days at home.

A lot of people will avoid needing to be quarantined because officials will also stop tracking secondary interactions.

A few weeks after Xi Jinping was elected to an unprecedented third term as party head, there has been a modest relaxation.

On Thursday, Mr. Xi met for the first time with his newly elected Standing Committee.

The 1.4 billion-person nation of China’s zero-Covid policy has prevented deaths, but it has also taken a heavy toll on the economy and the lives of common people.

Public apathy toward lockdowns and travel restrictions is growing.

Social media has also been flooded with tales of pain and desperation, which have sparked numerous public outbursts of rage.

China’s National Health Commission (NHC) stated that the revisions were made to react to a changing Covid environment rather than “relaxing prevention and control, let alone opening up.”

The NHC also declared that it will create a strategy to accelerate immunizations.

Even as the nation battles the worst Covid wave in months, the modifications were revealed on Friday.

Beijing, Guangzhou, and Zhengzhou are currently seeing record populations.

China reported more than 10,500 new cases of Covid on Thursday, the highest daily number since April, when China closed down Shanghai to deal with a wave there.

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