The party newspaper “Global Times” published a remarkable “exclusive” report last week.
It says a lot about China's handling of the corona virus.
A Chinese research team has demonstrated that omicron is less dangerous than previous variants of the coronavirus, the newspaper writes in the tone of a disclosure.
Of course, the rest of the world has known this for a long time.
The article shows that the Chinese leadership has now initiated a change of course in its corona policy with a considerable delay.
The test regime in individual cities is also being relaxed.
Friederike Böge
Political correspondent for China, North Korea and Mongolia.
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Sooner or later this step was inevitable.
The fact that he is coming now also has something to do with the pressure from the street.
In the past few days, demonstrators in various cities and at numerous universities have called for an end to the zero-Covid policy.