Chinese leaders promised Thursday to improve quarantine and other anti\u002Dvirus policies after public frustration boiled over into protests.
President Xi Jinping’s government is enforcing some of the world’s most extreme anti-virus restrictions despite rising costs while other countries ease travel and other curbs. The government has given no indication when it might ease controls that have shut down Shanghai and other major cities for weeks at a time to find and isolate every infected person.From our newsroom to your inbox at noon, the latest headlines, stories, opinion and photos from the Toronto Sun.
Following a new upsurge in cases, a growing number of areas are shutting down businesses and imposing curbs on movement. Videos circulated on social media show people in some areas protesting or fighting with police and health workers.Article content “Zero COVID” requires people to show a negative result from a virus test taken as often as once a day to enter office buildings, shopping malls and other public places. People from cities with a single case in the past week are barred from visiting Beijing, the capital.
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