{"id":1759595,"date":"2022-12-02T06:30:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T11:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1759595"},"modified":"2022-12-02T09:48:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T14:48:15","slug":"after-week-of-protests-china-to-loosen-covid-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-week-of-protests-china-to-loosen-covid-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"After Week of Protests, China to Loosen COVID Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fafter-week-of-protests-china-to-loosen-covid-restrictions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1759595&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1f7579cbbcb9621cacc3de6050e35721\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>STORY: China is set to announce in coming days an easing of its COVID-19 quarantine protocols and a reduction in mass testing.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Marking a shift in policy after widespread protests.<\/p>\n<p>And as state media reported that Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, who oversees COVID efforts, claimed the virus&#8217;s ability to cause disease was weakening.<\/p>\n<p>The measures due to be unveiled include a reduction in mass testing and regular nucleic acid tests.<\/p>\n<p>And moves to allow positive cases and close contacts to isolate at home under certain conditions, according to Reuters sources.<\/p>\n<p>That is a far cry from earlier protocols that led to public frustrations as entire communities were locked down, sometimes for weeks, after even just one positive case.<\/p>\n<p>The frustration boiled over last week in demonstrations of public defiance unprecedented in mainland China since President Xi Jinping took power in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>And come as the economy is set to enter a new era of much slower growth than seen in decades.<\/p>\n<p>Expectations have grown around the world that China could look to re-open its borders at some point next year.<\/p>\n<p>But that depends on vaccination rates among its hesitant elderly.<\/p>\n<p>For now, many, like Yang Zhijie, fear that the treatment will make them sick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are already so many diseases without vaccination. I fear that the diseases will become more serious after vaccination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>China has offered vaccinations for the elderly since April 2021, but the take-up rate slowed noticeably this year.<\/p>\n<p>By November, the proportion of people aged 60 and above to be fully vaccinated reached 86.4%, barely changing from 85.6% in August.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccination rates in Japan, by contrast, was at more than 90%.<\/p>\n<p>Public health experts say studies show the elderly have also been slow to take up the jab due to health, mobility and access.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s health authorities said on Wednesday (December 1) that they would aim to improve accessibility and launch targeted programs in nursing homes and leisure facilities among the over 60s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STORY: China is set to announce in coming days an easing of its COVID-19 quarantine protocols and a reduction in mass testing.That&#8217;s according to sources familiar with the matter.Marking a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1759598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1759598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}