Coronavirus in China: Beijing tells local governments to ease overly strict travel curbs for Lunar New Year

China’s central government has urged local authorities to ease unduly strict Covid-19 prevention policies criticising them as unnecessary and counterproductive.A number of county and town-level government officials have introduced testing policies that go further than Beijing recommends or imposed mandatory quarantines on those returning home from other parts of the country.The Chinese national health commission criticised those officials for “being lazy” and called on them to institute …

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