China Eases Quarantine Rules, Flight Bans in Covid Zero Pivot
Bloomberg
Published Nov 11, 2022 12:39AM ET
China Eases Quarantine Rules, Flight Bans in Covid Zero Pivot
(Bloomberg) -- China reduced the amount of time people entering the country must spend in quarantine, a significant calibration of the Covid Zero policy that has upended the world’s second-largest economy and left it increasingly isolated.
Travelers into China will be required to spend five days in a hotel or government quarantine facility, followed by three days confined to home, according to a National Health Commission statement Friday. The current rules require 10 days quarantine in total, with a week in a hotel then three days at home.
A system that penalizes airlines for bringing virus cases into the country will also be scrapped, the statement said, potentially aiding international transport links.
In a move to minimize the number of people thrown into mandatory quarantine when contact-tracing, close contacts of close contacts will no longer be identified, said the statement.
Bloomberg News reported in October and November that officials were discussing these changes.
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