‘The world changed overnight’: Zero-Covid overhaul brings joy — and fears — in China

Posted on AllSides December 8th, 2022
From The Left
Wei Liang/China News Service/Getty Images

Workers across China have dismantled some of the physical signs of the country’s zero-Covid controls, peeling health code scanning signs off metro station walls and closing some checkpoints after the government unveiled an overhaul of its pandemic policy.

But as many residents expressed relief and happiness at the obvious loosening of measures, some worried about its impact and questioned how the new rules would be rolled out.

“The world changed overnight, and that’s really amazing,” said Echo Ding, 30, a manager at a tech company in Beijing. “I feel like we are getting...

Read full story

AllSides Picks

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/china/china-zero-covid-relaxation-reaction-intl-hnk/index.html

More News about China from the Left, Center and Right

From the Left

From the Center

From the Right