China cuts quarantine rule for recovered Covid patients to brace for severe cases
India Today
China's National Health Commission has released the revised plan, which calls for only quarantining mild cases instead of admitting them in the hospital unless the conditions worsen.
China has cut short the mandatory quarantine period for recovered COVID-19 patients to save medical resources for severe cases, as the country battles a two-year high in fresh infections.
Reviewing China's attempts to contain the fresh spread of the pandemic during a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the ruling Communist Party of China, President Xi Jinping urged swift containment of the spread of the COVID-19.
Since the COVID-19 response measures were enforced on a regular basis, China has effectively responded to regional cluster infections and provided the best protection for people's lives and health as it can, Xi was quoted as saying by the official media.
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The country's economic performance and COVID-19 response - both it led the world in - fully demonstrated its strength and capacity in epidemic prevention and control, he said, stressing on the advantages of the Chinese Communist Party's leadership and the socialist system.
"Victory comes from perseverance," Xi said. He asked all departments and regions to prepare for complexity and difficulty in COVID-19 response at home and abroad, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Meanwhile, in a major adjustment to its anti-pandemic plan China augmented its COVID-19 testing capability by approving rapid self-test kits to curb outbreaks in a faster and scientific manner as daily local cases went up to a two-year high in the last few weeks.
