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HONG KONG—People in China are rushing to buy medicines and rapid test kits as well as get vaccinated after Beijing scrapped most
virus testing and scaled back other key elements of its pandemic controls despite acknowledging hospitals are poorly resourced and the elderly are under-vaccinated.
Protests that erupted across China in late November and further evidence of the zero-Covid strategy’s toll on growth and livelihoods have shifted the focus of China’s leaders to reviving the economy, even at the risk of unleashing a deadly wave of infections during the winter months. The speed of the policy changes surprised experts who had predicted a more drawn-out process to allow time for the government to explain the move and take measures to lessen threats to public health.
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