China lifted the 'Zero Covid' policy hoping it would give their citizens relief but it didn't go well with migrant workers as they have to search for new jobs after being affected by the stringent regulations, Voice Against Autocracy reported.
China spent enormous sums of money on building isolation facilities and makeshift hospitals over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, but a recent surge in infections has highlighted huge medical deficiencies.
Doctors and nurses in some of China’s public hospitals are facing pay cuts or salary delays amid a surge in coronavirus cases, as local government finances come under extreme strain.
China says it will allow group tours to resume to 20 countries starting Feb. 6 after it reopened its borders and abandoned quarantine measures earlier this month in a full departure from its strict "zero-COVID" policy, but Japan was not among the destinations.
Local officials turned what authorities had hoped would be a gradual reopening into a sudden one in their scramble to implement Xi Jinping’s directives.