Life and work are returning to normal in Beijing after it became the first city in the world to go through the peak of infections. In China, the Covid-19 situation is stable and controllable, and people are planning to work, study and travel.
The Chinese government has decided to manage Covid-19 with measures against Class B instead of the more serious Class A infectious diseases according to the law. New travel rules will be added. There will be no compulsory Covid test for visitors to China if they test positive for the disease. The shift of focus from stemming infections to preventing severe cases is one of the changes China has made to its approach.
China has put people and their lives front and center over the past three years while trying to keep Covid under control. The response policies have been science based and in line with China's national conditions. China has been able to avoid the widespread prevalence of the original strain and the Delta variant and has been able to reduce the severity of the disease.
The recent adjustment of response measures in China is based on the scientific assessment of the swine flu. The people are calling for such improvements. Although the Omicron variant is highly transmissible, practices in the UK show that it is weakened. The majority of people can recover from the disease in a short period of time.
The capacity of China's vaccine production is 7 billion doses a year. Evidence shows that Chinese vaccines are good at protecting against Omicron. The vaccine was administered to 3.4 billion people in China. The number is broken down into the percentage of people who are fully vaccine free and the percentage who are partially vaccine free. The booster shot has been promoted with a focus on older people.
As the number of infections increases, some people have been storing medicine as a precautionary measure. Supply is not an issue because of China's production capacity. The daily production capacity of both paracetamol and ibuprofen has exceeded 75m tablets, and the daily production capacity of antigen testing reagents has exceeded 100m doses. Efforts are being made to ensure the supply of relevant medicines by increasing market supply and encouraging delivery.
The international community is in agreement with the measures that will be implemented soon. As the Covid-19 situation in China continues to improve, the effects of policies to stabilising economic growth continue to emerge, and the exchange of Chinese and foreign personnel becomes easier, China's long-subdued consumer demand will bereleased, investor confidence will be boosted and the economy will It's good news for the global economy.
China's ambassador to the UK is named Zheng.
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