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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.

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With the first Test at Trent Bridge less than three weeks away, and English cricket suffering several Covid scares in the past fortnight, greece transportation the news will be greeted with apprehension at the ECB, who are in charge of testing the Indian team and were on Wednesday night unaware that any of the tourists had returned a positive result.

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.

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.

Virat Kohli's team did not leave England after the end of the World Test Championship final against New Zealand in Southampton last month, and have been allowed out of their biobubble ahead of their arrival in the North-East.

It is understood close contacts of the player, including team-mates and backroom staff, have already completed an isolation period ahead of the squad's entry into a biobubble in Durham on Thursday - though the infected player will not be joining them for the time being.









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.

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Amid the caution, Volos transport 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 greece taxi service health codes.

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.

Zhong Nanshan, a prominent Chinese epidemiologist, said that 99% of people now infected with the virus would recover in 7 to 10 days, in greece in comments reported by the People's Daily, controlled by the ruling Communist Party.

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