Beijing flips back to what it knows best – a Covid-19 lockdown

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.