China will continue to fine-tune its COVID-prevention measures to minimize infections and severe cases, officials said on Saturday (November 12), a day after Beijing unveiled a spate of steps to lessen the impact of its heavy-handed zero-COVID policy.
China's top health authorities told a news conference that the new COVID easing measures were an optimization of rules and not a relaxation of controls.
On Friday (November 11), China unveiled measures including shorter quarantines for inbound travelers and those in close contact with infected people, in an announcement that investors welcomed. Quarantines were cut by two days to eight, with the first five spent in a centralized facility.
The shortened two-day quarantine could help China save 30% of quarantine resources, Chang Jile, the Vice Administrator of the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration, told a news conference.
China reported its largest tally of new COVID-19 infections since late April on Saturday (November 12). The National Health Commission said 11,950 new COVID-19 infections for the previous day, of which 1,504 were symptomatic and 10,446 were asymptomatic.
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