Källor: Januari kan bli brytpunkt för hanteringen
Kina kan i januari sluta hantera covid-19 som en kategori A-virussjukdom, den allvarligaste graden. I stället kan viruset hanteras som kategori B, en nivå som kräver mindre strikt hantering. Det rapporterar Reuters som hänvisar till två källor med insyn.
Kina har sedan januari 2020 klassat covid-19 som en kategori B-sjukdom men den hanteras enligt regler för den strängare klassificeringen, vilket gett lokala myndigheter ett större mandat att vidta hårda åtgärder.
Enligt källorna kan Kina redan på onsdag ge besked om tio nya förändringar av kampen mot viruset. Ett tjugotal åtgärder som meddelades i november banade väg för de restriktionslättnader som nu märks på flera håll i landet.
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Covid-19 i Kina
Wikipedia (en)
The COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). China was the first country to experience an outbreak of the disease, the first to impose drastic measures in response (including lockdowns and face mask mandates), and one of the first countries to bring the outbreak under control.
The 2019–2020 COVID-19 outbreak in mainland China was the first wave of the disease, and was first manifested as a cluster of mysterious pneumonia cases, mostly related to the Huanan Seafood Market, in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. It was first reported to the local government on 27 December 2019 and published on 31 December. On 8 January 2020, a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was identified as the cause of the pneumonia by Chinese scientists. By 29 January, the virus was found to have spread to all provinces of mainland China.By late February, the pandemic had been brought under control in most Chinese provinces. On 25 February, the reported number of newly confirmed cases outside mainland China exceeded those reported from within for the first time. By the Summer of 2020, widespread community transmission in China had been ended, and restrictions were significantly eased.The Chinese government response has included a zero-COVID strategy, which aims to eliminate transmission of the virus within the country and allow resumption of normal economic and social activity, making it one of few countries to pursue this approach.By late 2020, China's economy continued to broaden recovery from the recession during the pandemic, with stable job creation and record international trade growth, although retail consumption was still slower than predicted.Infection rates increased in 2022, and on 3 April 2022, China reported 13,146 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which was the highest single-day total of new cases since the height of the 2020 outbreak.
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