The Covid 19 Pandemic has ended everywhere … but just getting started in China with 300 Million new cases

This is the weirdest Pandemic ever…

Covid-19 is now tearing through China

As cases surge, the country says it will end its isolation

After nearly three years of self-imposed isolation, China is opening up again. The domestic travel restrictions, mass-testing requirements and draconian lockdowns of the “zero-covid” policy were scrapped in early December. On January 8th China will reopen its borders, too. People arriving from abroad will no longer have to quarantine. More flights into China will be allowed. Visas will be granted to business travellers and students (though not yet to tourists). And Chinese nationals will be allowed to travel abroad without needing to provide the authorities with a reason.

But for a sense of how much the covid situation in China has changed look at Japan and India. They are now demanding that incoming Chinese travellers take a covid test first. In the span of a couple of months, China has gone from being a country with an incredibly small number of infections to, perhaps, the world’s largest covid hotspot.

Source: https://www.economist.com/china/2022/12/28/covid-19-is-tearing-through-china