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China re-opens more areas at risk for Covid spread
Updated On: 13 December, 2022 08:45 AM IST | Beijing | Agencies
High-risk areas without new infections for five consecutive days will be released from lockdown
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People buy medicines from a drug store in Beijing Monday. Pic/AFP
China has slashed the number of locations deemed at high risk of wider COVID outbreaks, re-opening locked down areas including one hosting a key factory of an Apple supplier. The number of high-risk areas tumbled to around 4,500 on Monday, official data showed, down 85pc from more than 30,000 on December 7 before the latest policy shift was announced.
China has dropped testing prior to many activities, reined in quarantine and was preparing on Monday to de-activate a mobile app used to track the travel histories of a population of 1.4 billion people. A district in the city of Zhengzhou in central China where iPhone supplier Foxconn has a vast facility declared on Monday that it had released all high-risk zones from lockdown. Last month, thousands of workers fled the Foxconn facility on fears of COVID lockdowns, curtailing production.
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