This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (yellow)—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient, emerging from the surface of a patient. Cell surface (blue/pink) cultured in the laboratory. Credit: NIAID-RML
People with COVID-19 symptoms in one of China’s largest cities can now go to work “as usual”, state media reported on Monday, a dramatic reversal in a country where once a single case could send thousands of people into lockdown.
The world’s most populous country is easing its hardline policy on the coronavirus for years, with COVID spreading rapidly after the official end of lockdown, mass testing and isolation.
And with authorities admitting it was “impossible” to track the outbreak, the southern megacity of Chongqing – home to some 32 million people – has become one of the first in China to allow people are working normally even with obvious symptoms, Chongqing Daily reported on Monday. cited an announcement from the city government.
The notice, issued on Sunday, said that government, party and state employees with “mild symptoms” “can work normally after taking the personal protective measures prescribed by the surname”. facility condition and their job needs.
It also urges residents not to take “unnecessary” virus tests or ask people to give a negative result, with the exception of certain facilities such as care homeschools and prisons.
Local governments across China often encourage people to isolate at home while recovering from illness — a dramatic shift from the state’s policy of herding people into quarantine facilities. before.
On Sunday, the eastern province of Zhejiang, a major economic hub of more than 60 million people, said those with mild symptoms can “continue to work, if necessary, with the precondition of carrying out personal protection measures”.
Authorities remained adam in the coming holidays.
Visits to hospitals and clinics surged in the days after China lifted restrictions, although the World Health Organization said the virus had spread widely in the country as control measures They themselves did not prevent the disease.”
Cities and provinces across China have been forced to adjust public health services as the country first learns to live with the virus.
In the eastern city of Suzhou, authorities rushed to convert testing sites into makeshift fever treatment stations, according to state media.
Other cities, including the capital Beijing, have given out free medical kits to some residents and urged patients to choose online consultations instead of going to hospitals. state media report.
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