China's 'zero-COVID' looks done. So, what to expect next?

Focus shifting to immunizing elderly and preventing deaths rather than infections

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On Nov. 30, Guangzhou took the lead, with several districts announcing they would lift most restrictions and reopen businesses.

XU WEN, JIANG MOTING, CUI XIAOTIAN, LIU DENGHUI, ZHAO JINZHAO and HAN WEI, Caixin

It was on the 25th day that Guangzhou resident Fang Yuan had been confined to her home under lockdown when she was disturbed by a loud noise. A cacophony of machinery and clearance work erupted to break the silence that had settled over the neighborhood after isolation barricades had gone up weeks earlier as COVID raged across the city and much of China.

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