According to a report released on Tuesday by the National Health Commission, China reported 60 locally disseminated validated COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, including 15 in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, 42 in Beijing, and three in Shanghai.
The revised policy have decided to accept visa application by Indian professionals and their families, students to resume work and re-join universities in China after a gap of over two years
The decline presents a challenge to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's drive to achieve growth and wealth distribution under his "new capitalism" agenda, stoking fears of stagflation - a mix of tepid growth and rising inflation.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that increased knowledge about coronavirus and better tools to combat it also suggested it was "time for a change of strategy".