Tag Archives: Chinese city-dwellers head to hometowns as holidays raise Covid stakes

Passengers laden with luggage flocked to rail stations and airports in China’s megacities on Monday, heading to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year holidays that health experts fear could intensify a raging Covid-19 outbreak in areas less equipped to handle it. After three years of strict anti-virus controls, China abruptly abandoned its “zero Covid” policy in early December, letting the virus …

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