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The end of the zero Covid policy opens a period of high health risk. The country could count more than a million deaths and bring out new variants.
By Caroline Peat
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VS’is a turning point in the history of the pandemic. Even if the Chinese authorities do not formulate it officially, Wednesday, December 7 marks the end of the zero Covid policy. The National Health Commission announced in particular that “asymptomatic infected people and mild cases who can be isolated at home will generally be so”.
End confinement in quarantine centers away from the rest of the population. The country will also “further reduce the scope of testing and reduce the frequency”. The time has therefore come for the Chinese to learn to live with the virus.
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