Beijing to Let Some Low-Risk Patients Home Quarantine as Covid Soars + Some Notes

Bloomberg: Beijing to Let Some Low-Risk Patients Home Quarantine as Covid Soars

Global Times: Flexible measures implemented across China to ensure people’s livelihoods amid cold front

China actually started relaxing it’s Zero-COVID polices on November 11th. The mNRA vaccine hasn’t been approved, yet. The West is pushing for China to use mNRA vaccines.

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Only 86.4% of people in China over the age of 60 have gotten their shot, NBC News reported, compared with the US’s 93% of people 65 and older. China’s biggest problem is people aged 80 and older, however. Only 59% of that age group has received one dose of the vaccine, according to data from the Chinese National Health Commission reported by BBC. Roughly half of that age group received two vaccine doses and 20% have gotten two shots plus a booster.

Chinese vaccine plans spark hope for end of ‘zero COVID’

China uses vaccines made by domestic developers including Sinovac and Sinopharm [none of their vaccines are mNRA] It has withheld approval of mRNA vaccines such as the one invented by Germany’s BioNTech, though a Chinese company bought distribution rights in 2020.

China has 4.3 hospital beds per person, barely half of the average of eight in neighboring Mongolia, a much poorer country, according to the World Health Organization. Japan has 13 and South Korea has 12.5.*

*Source: World Bank

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Is This The End of China’s Covid Zero?

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