People queued outside fever clinics at Chinese hospitals for COVID-19 checks on Monday, December 12, a new sign of the rapid spread of symptoms after authorities began dismantling an apparatus they used to surveil residents and curtail movement.
The app that identified travelers to COVID-stricken areas will shut down at midnight on Monday, according to a notice on its official WeChat account. In Shanghai, China’s largest city which endured a two-month lockdown earlier this year, authorities said that from Tuesday none of its districts would be considered high-risk, meaning the end for now of measures that trapped people inside their homes.
“Basically everybody is now simultaneously rushing to buy rapid antigen test kits but have also somewhat given up on the hope that COVID can be contained,” she said. “We have acceptedIn the capital Beijing, about 80 people huddled in the cold outside a fever clinic in the upmarket district of Chaoyang as ambulances zipped past.
But the figures reflect the dropping of testing requirements, analysts say, while health experts have warned of an imminent surge in contagion., Zhang Wenhong, head of a team of experts in the commercial hub, said the current outbreak could peak in a month, though an end to the pandemic might be three to six months away.
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