Under the new rules, centralized quarantine times for close contacts and travelers from abroad were shortened from seven days to five days.
BEIJING, China – China on Friday, November 11, eased some of its draconian COVID rules, including shortening quarantines by two days for close contacts of infected people and for inbound travelers, and removing a penalty for airlines for bringing in too many cases.
“Optimising and adjusting prevention and control measures is not relaxing prevention and control, let alone opening up and ‘laying flat’, but to adapt to the new situation of epidemic prevention and control and the new characteristics of COVID-19 mutation,” the National Health Commission said. Authorities reported 10,535 new domestically transmitted cases for Thursday, a low number by global standards but China’s highest number since April 29, when the commercial hub of Shanghai, was battling its most serious outbreak under strict lockdown.The southern city of Guangzhou – a manufacturing and transport hub and the new epicenter of China’s COVID fight – reported 2,824 new local cases for Thursday, the fourth day in which infections exceeded 2,000.
Will Zhang, 30, a post-graduate student, said universities in Guangzhou have been put under curbs, including a sprawling university town in Panyu district with more than a dozen institutions and a population of more than 300,000. Zhengzhou, capital of central Henan province, reported 2,988 new cases, more than double from a day earlier, in a widening outbreak that has thrown an iPhone assembly plant of Apple supplier Foxconn2317.TW into chaos.
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