As of midnight on Monday, China’s contact tracing app will cease to function, meaning residents’ travels will not be traced and recorded
China will drop a travel tracing requirement as part of an uncertain exit from its strict “zero-COVID” policies that have elicited widespread dissatisfaction.
Last month in Beijing and several other cities, protests over the restrictions grew into calls for leader Xi Jinping and the ruling Communist Party step down, in a level of public political expression not seen in decades.potentially overwhelming health care resources in some areas. China’s leaders had long praised “zero-COVID” for keeping numbers of cases and deaths much lower than in other nations, but health officials are now saying the most prevalent omicron variety poses much less of a risk.
The party responded with a massive show of force and an unknown number of people were arrested at the protests or in the days following.
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