Easing COVID measures optimises regulations, not relaxing control - Chinese official

Record ID: 1957537

  • Title: Easing COVID measures optimises regulations, not relaxing control - Chinese official
  • Date: 12th November 2022
  • Summary: BEIJING, CHINA (NOVEMBER 12, 2022) (CCTV - No use China) NEWS CONFERENCE ON COVID REGULATIONS IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) DEPUTY HEAD OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION, LEI HAICHAO, SAYING: “The new 20 optimisation rules are the improvement of the ninth edition of the prevention and control plan, (the new guidance) is not relaxing prevention and control, let alone o
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  • Keywords: Beijing China Covid Policy Quarantine news zero-covid
  • Location: BEIJING, CHINA
  • City: BEIJING, CHINA
  • Country: China
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Health/Medicine
  • Reuters ID: LVA001886312112022RP1
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  • Story Text: China will continue to fine-tune it's COVID-prevention measures as it tries to minimise infections and serious cases, officials said on Saturday (November 12), a day after Beijing unveiled a spate of steps to lessen the impact of its heavy-handed zero-COVID policy.
    China's top health authorities told a news conference that the new COVID easing measures were an optimisation of rules and not a relaxation of controls.
    On Friday (November 11), China unveiled measures including shorter quarantines for inbound travellers and those in close contact with infected people, in an announcement that was welcomed by investors. Quarantines were cut by two days to a total of eight, with the first five spent in a centralised facility.
    The shortened two-day in quarantine could help China save 30% of quarantine resources, Chang Jile, the Vice Administrator of the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration, told a news conference.
    China reported its largest tally of new COVID-19 infections since late April on Saturday (November 12). The National Health Commission reported 11,950 new COVID-19 infections for the previous day, of which 1,504 were symptomatic and 10,446 were asymptomatic.
    (Production: Joyce Zhou)
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