Some Chinese cities have announced easing their COVID-19 restrictions following widespread protests in China. However, Chinese officials have already said they will persist in their dynamic zero-COVID policy and have not given any indication of when it would end.
In Guangzhou, a manufacturing hub located near Hong Kong, local health officials announced lifting lockdowns in several parts of the city on Nov. 30, but said areas of the city designated “high-risk” would remain under lockdown. The city also announced that it will stop ordering district-wide mass COVID-19 testing.
While some locals in Guangzhou will see their life return to some form of normality, others will quickly find themselves under new restrictions. For instance, citizens in some parts of Baiyun district in Guangzhou were told on Wednesday that they could not leave their homes, after their areas were designated as “high risk.”…