COVID strategies optimized
By LI LEI| China Daily| Updated :2022-12-01 Delivery workers wait to pick up meals at a food street in Beijing on Tuesday. Unnecessary restrictions at grassroots to be removed as soon as possible Authorities will accelerate the lifting of unnecessary restrictions put in place after the recent Omicron-fueled outbreaks to reduce the disease control strategies' economic fallout and other resulting "inconveniences", a senior health official said on Tuesday, amid a surge of public displeasure toward the distorted enforcement of containment policies. National Health Commission spokesman Mi Feng said local governments are racing to make "concrete and detailed" plans after central authorities unveiled the"20 measures" on optimizing the country's COVID-19 strategies this month. Cheng Youquan, an official with the National Disease Control Bureau, said the recent surge in public ire is mostly directed at local governments' negligence in meeting the demands of the public in restricted areas, and the "one-size-fits-all "approach toward controlling the spread of COVID-19, rather than the control measures themselves. "Some localities randomly, and sometimes unnecessarily, expand the area and people involved in the restriction, and don't lift restrictions for a long time, and some places even impose control measures without approval," he said.
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