China eases quarantine and sends infected to home treatment
2022.12.01 03:17
China eases quarantine and sends infected to home treatment
Budrigannews.com – Two people who are familiar with the situation told Reuters that China will allow some people who test positive for COVID-19 to quarantine at home as one of the additional measures that will be announced in the coming days.
China’s quarantine procedures would be significantly altered by the infected being isolated at home.
When even a single positive case was discovered earlier this year, entire communities were kept in lockdown, sometimes for weeks.Last month, new, simpler quarantine regulations only required affected buildings to be locked down.
One of the sources told Reuters on Thursday that not all positive cases will be allowed to quarantine at home unconditionally. The source added that pregnant women, the elderly, and people who have underlying illnesses will be eligible to isolate at home.
According to the sources, close contacts of the cases will also be permitted to isolate at home if certain conditions are met.
According to the two sources, authorities will also reduce the frequency of mass testing and routine nucleic acid tests and increase antigen testing for the new coronavirus.
When Reuters faxed for comment, the National Health Commission did not immediately respond.
Since the weekend, some Chinese cities like Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Beijing have seen rare public protests against China’s extremely stringent coronavirus restrictions, which include putting positive cases in centralized quarantine facilities for several days.
Since President Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, the demonstrations have evolved into an unprecedented display of public disobedience.China’s COVID countermeasures are overseen by Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, who called for further “optimization” of quarantine, treatment, and testing policies on Wednesday.
This week, officials from the national health system said that authorities would respond to “urgent concerns” from the public and that COVID regulations should be applied more flexibly depending on the conditions in a region.
Hu Xijin, a well-known nationalist commentator, stated in a Wednesday social media post that many asymptomatic coronavirus carriers in Beijing were already in quarantine at home.
