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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.
On the Beijing subway, many seats were empty on Friday night during what should have been rush hour, even though the city this week scrapped the need to show negative tests to ride trains or enter offices.
Yet China has been anything but placid during the past few weeks, with protests against COVID curbs in many cities that marked the biggest show of public discontent since President Xi Jinping came to power a decade ago.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - H aitian high school teacher Miguel Jacquet used to be able to provide for his family, but a dire humanitarian and economic crisis has seen him join the swelling ranks of the poor.
Amid the caution, state-broadcaster CCTV announced further easing, with tourism and entertainment venues - including theatres, libraries, internet cafes and table game centres no longer requiring COVID tests and health codes.
"It's the first time I've seen Haiti in such a deep chaotic situation, even though we've been through many crises." ($1 = 137.0000 gourdes) Originally published on: website (Reporting by Joseph Guyler Delver in Port-au-Prince; Writing by Anastasia Moloney in Bogota; Editing by Sonia Elks.
The cash transfers have increasingly become a lifeline for millions of people, as the country spirals ever deeper into a political and SKOPELOS THESSALONIKI TAXI economic crisis, with inflation in June reaching a 10-year high of 29%.
Little more than a month after the National Health Commission stressed commitment to its strict virus containment policy, VOLOS PORT TAXI saying it was "putting people and lives first", authorities have changed tack and are now telling people they have less to fear.
Zhong Nanshan, VOLOS NAFPLION TRANSFER 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.
estimates about 1.5 million people in Port-au-Prince live in areas controlled by armed gangs who impose curfews, block roads and inflict terror. Fear of getting caught in gang violence means she stays at home.
BEIJING, VOLOS SERRES TRANSFER Dec 9 (Reuters) - Judging by Friday's quiet streets in China's capital Beijing and the reluctance of some businesses to drop COVID curbs, SKIATHOS THESSALONIKI TAXI enduring anxieties about the coronavirus are likely to hamper a speedy return to health for the world's second-largest economy.
In some slum neighborhoods, drinking water cannot be distributed as roads are cut off by garbage that has not been collected for SKIATHOS THESSALONIKI TAXI months and flooded by clogged canals and Pelion taxi service sewers, VOLOS SERRES TRANSFER according to medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières.
"I really feel ashamed every time I have to call my brother in New York to ask him for money," said Jacquet, who receives between $100 and SKOPELOS THESSALONIKI TAXI $200 in remittances a month to support his household in the capital Port-au-Prince.
Haitians living abroad have long propped up the economy of their Caribbean homeland, with remittance flows rising to $4.4 billion last year, representing 21% of Haiti's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to the World Bank.
The trigger for VOLOS LARISA KTEL the current humanitarian crisis was the blockade of a key fuel terminal by armed gangs that began in September, cutting off supplies of gasoline and diesel, VOLOS LARISA KTEL which in turn led to shortages of basic goods including clean water.
