The Seven Unmissable Cultural Events Happening This Week
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BEIJING, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Judging by Friday's quiet streets in China's capital Beijing and the reluctance of some businesses to drop COVID curbs, enduring anxieties about the coronavirus are likely to hamper a speedy return to health for the world's second-largest economy.
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.
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.
Although the government on Wednesday loosened key parts of its strict "zero-COVID" policy that has kept the pandemic largely at bay for CRUISESHIP VOLOS TAXI the past three years, many people appear wary of being too quick to shake off the shackles.
Zhong Nanshan, Pelion taxi service 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.
Little more than a month after the National Health Commission stressed commitment to its strict virus containment policy, UBER VOLOS saying it was "putting people and lives first", VOLOS IGOUMENITSA TRANSFER authorities have changed tack and are now telling people they have less to fear.
Amid the caution, SKOPELOS THESSALONIKI TAXI state-broadcaster CCTV announced further easing, with tourism and entertainment venues - including theatres, libraries, internet cafes and VOLOS KOMOTINI TAXI table game centres no longer requiring COVID tests and VOLOS ACHILLION TAXI health codes.
