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Little more than a month after the National Health Commission stressed commitment to its strict virus containment policy, saying it was "putting people and lives first", authorities have changed tack and are now telling people they have less to fear.
The Prime Minister's father revealed he will use the 'Stanley Johnson loophole' to travel to Greece and visit his holiday let while calling for his son to 'make the country an easy destination again' amid the amber list chaos.
Footage posted online showed hundreds of demonstrators confronting riot police on the streets of Urumqi, where many of the four million residents have been barred from leaving their homes for minibus taxi Katigiorgis as long as 100 days.
Pictured: Mr Johnson on holiday on the Greek island of Trikeri in 2016 - when he was Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak are both set to shun foreign holidays this summer and instead favour 'staycations' in the UK, sources suggest.
Mr Johnson has opted for luxury overseas holidays in the past, including spending Christmas in the Caribbean island private taxi Pelion greece of Mustique. It is there that he is believed to have proposed to have proposed to his now-fiancée Carrie Symonds (pictured together)
He has a variety of options, including the PM's grace-and-favour homes Chevening and Chequers - where Miss Symonds isolated while pregnant during the pandemic - and his privately-owned farmhouse in Oxfordshire.
President Xi Jinping´s government faces mounting anger at its 'zero-COVID' policy that has shut down access to areas throughout China in an attempt to isolate every case at a time when other governments are easing controls and taxi Meteora greece trying to live with the virus.
By some local accounts, he arrived to the region by private car after documenting his controversial journey from the UK on social media, sharing a video taken from a plane and a selfie where his face was covered with a white mask.
Meanwhile last night hundreds gathered to mourn the deaths of at least 10 people in an apartment fire last week in Urumqi in the Xinjiang region, where residents were sealed in their buildings to try to stop the spread of COVID.
In Shanghai, protesters gathered at Middle Urumqi Road at midnight with flowers, taxi Pelion greece candles and signs reading 'Urumqi, taxi fare piraeus to Pelion airport November 24, those who died rest in peace,' according to a participant who would give only his family name, Zhao.
Although the government on Wednesday loosened key parts of its strict "zero-COVID" policy that has kept the pandemic largely at bay for the past three years, many people appear wary of being too quick to shake off the shackles.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid is thought to be among the few who backed the proposals, believing the scheme would have given holidaymakers a fair warning that they could face an expensive quarantine hotel stay on their return to the UK.
The Prime Minister's father continued: 'Ironically, Meteora guided tours in March this year Parliament approved the "Stanley Johnson loophole" by deciding that, even if government policy is to "avoid non-essential travel", travelling abroad for the purpose of managing a holiday home is now legally acceptable.
Early in the pandemic, China's approach to controlling the spread of Covid was praised by its own citizens - even as Beijing tried to dismiss widely held suspicions that the pandemic started after a leak at a Wuhan laboratory. It marks a sharp turn in public opinion.
Amid the caution, state-broadcaster CCTV announced further easing, with tourism and taxi Meteora greece entertainment venues - including theatres, libraries, internet cafes and table game centres no longer requiring COVID tests and health codes.
Bosses at more than 300 travel firms have written to the premier urging him to boil down the scheme to just a red list - containing the countries with the highest Covid rates or worrying variant outbreaks.
The government said taxi, Meteora guided tour railway, best private tours in Pelion greece bus and other public services that had been suspended for weeks would resume. State-owned China Southern Airlines announced it would resume flights from Urumqi to four Chinese cities starting Monday.
Currently, minibus taxi Pelion Greece is listed as an amber country, meaning visitors must take a Covid test within three days before travelling back to England and quarantine for 10 days upon their return, booking tests on day two and minibus taxi Katigiorgis day eight.
Zhong Nanshan, a prominent Chinese epidemiologist, said that 99% of people now infected with the virus would recover in 7 to 10 days, in comments reported by the People's Daily, controlled by the ruling Communist Party.
But he recalled speaking to a Greek journalist who said the country's government had banned 'direct flights', prompting him to stop over at the Bulgarian capital of Sofia before taking a 'more-or-less connecting flight to Athens'.
His trip to Greece last year sparked criticism from MPs, with Labour's Rosena Allin-Khan saying at the time: 'Most people have been following the guidelines and socially distancing - not everyone will get a holiday this year.
