BEIJING - Ten days ago, after the all-important Communist Party congress was done and dusted, China’s health authority gave the millions of wearied souls in the country a glimmer of hope that the life they had known for the past three years – riddled with flash lockdowns, daily testing and travel bans – could be coming to an end.
While not exactly China’s homecoming party in rejoining the rest of the world, the announcement of 20 adjustments to Covid-19 protocols was a definitive sign it was inching closer to disabling this impossibly infectious virus’ permission to seize, overwhelm and disrupt lives.
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