China is reopening the doors but still a long way to go

Corona virus has affected the world in so many ways with the shut downs and all. China especially has been close for a long time now even after the other countries opened the doors and removed the restrictions.  China hopes to reopen in the new year after three years of severe pandemic border restrictions that largely isolated the country from the rest of the world.

China is reopening the doors but still a long way to go

China has been quite firm with the restrictions and all yet it looks like China's self-imposed zero-COVID policy has weakened its economy and caused widespread social unhappiness, prompting these adjustments. In China, nearly one in five young people do not have a job, and numerous industries have been hit hard by mass layoffs.

After nearly three years of lockdowns, thousands of people in Chinese cities staged a protest in November against the disruptive COVID-19 restrictions. A fire that killed ten people in western China sparked the protests. Some protesters even made a rare challenge to the authority of the Chinese Communist Party by blaming pandemic restrictions for delaying rescue efforts. China has abandoned key aspects of its zero-COVID policy since those historic protests, such as allowing individuals with mild or no symptoms of COVID-19 to isolate at home rather than remain in centralized quarantine facilities. Additionally, they no longer need to pass tests to enter most venues.