Beijing to let some patients home isolate, a significant shift from COVID zero. Low risk patients will now be allowed to do week-long isolations. This comes as a response to societal concerns and stretched resources. The change has begun in Chaoyang, which has a population of 3.5 million people as well as foreign embassies and company offices.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-01/beijing-to-let-some-low-risk-patients-home-quarantine-as-covid-soars-in-china

Beijing to let some patients home isolate, a significant shift from COVID zero. Low risk patients will now be allowed to do week-long isolations. This comes as a response to societal concerns and stretched resources. The change has begun in Chaoyang, which has a population of 3.5 million people as well as foreign embassies and company offices.  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-01/beijing-to-let-some-low-risk-patients-home-quarantine-as-covid-soars-in-china

Sam Mendoza

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-scraps-most-testing-quarantine-requirements-in-covid-19-policy-pivot-11670398522?mod=hp_lead_pos1

China dropped many of its quarantine and testing requirements and curtailed local officials’ power to shut down entire city blocks, as the country’s leaders accelerate plans to dismantle zero-Covid co

China Scraps Most Covid Testing, Quarantine Requirements in Policy Pivot

Bobby

Well it’s the 大白‘a turn of 🪧 now (also just found out about the protest emoji lol)

Sophie

Health authorities in cities across China said they would allow people who have tested positive to quarantine at home instead of in a centralized quarantine facility. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/2/new-found-freedom-china-relaxes-covid-rules-after-protests?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioschina&stream=china

Local governments are allowing positive coronavirus cases to quarantine at home – a marked departure from current rules.