Beijing is planning shortened quarantine periods for foreign arrivals, according to three sources who spoke with Reuters.
These sources were backed up by a recording of a Citi meeting that featured a Chinese former disease control official saying that “substantial” changes are coming to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) draconian “zero-COVID” lockdowns.
Starting early at the beginning of the novel coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Beijing has maintained a policy of attempting to stamp out the virus from China, enacting extended lockdowns and quarantines have that had a crushing effect on the national and local economies, and created numerous and outrage-inducing humanitarian tragedies.
The insider information reported by Reuters comes despite most China-watchers claiming no sign that Beijing might ease “zero-COVID” after the 20th Party Congress that saw leader Xi Jinping took a third term and appoint many of his allies to higher posts.
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