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Then, let's look at the local situation in China, which has lifted the zero corona policy and the so-called quarantine Great Wall.

The Beijing airport was crowded for the first time in three years and there was no inspection after entry.

However, the aftermath of the rapid policy change also appeared.



Correspondent Jung Young-tae from Beijing.



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] Beijing's international arrival hall, which has been controlled for 34 months, is crowded again.



Families who have not been seen for a long time hug each other and welcome each other during quarantine for up to three weeks.



[Rio/Chinese student studying in the US: There was no PCR test, and I only reported customs and came out.

(How do you feel?) I really like it.

I'm back home.]



Quarantine for entrants is officially lifted from today (8th), but quarantine has already been lifted in most areas since last week, and PCR testing after entry is not being conducted from today.



Hong Kong and mainland China also resumed quarantine-free travel for the first time in three years.



Hong Kong's vaccinations increased 10 times in a month to 20,000 cases a day, showing anxiety about the spread of the continental corona.



[Peter Wong/Hong Kong resident: The spread of corona in mainland China is very serious, so I'm afraid.]



As the demand for corona diagnostic kits decreased due to quarantine mitigation, violent protests broke out at a self-diagnosis kit manufacturing factory in Chongqing.



The police were dispatched, but they were blocked by strong resistance and retreated as if they were being chased.



[Police: Now you are harming public order and violating the law.] As the



quarantine authorities changed their policy and the demand for diagnostic kits sharply decreased, the factory side unilaterally laid off thousands of workers.



Millions of quarantine agents who had been put into PCR testing and quarantined area management for three years suddenly lost their jobs.



Local governments are not paying wages, claiming that they are running out of finances, and protests are continuing in various places demanding the return of overdue wages.



Concerns about the spread of Corona 19 to rural areas with poor medical facilities are growing as the 'Chinese New Year' transport', in which 2 billion people move, has also begun.



(Video coverage: Choi Deok-hyun, video editing: Kim Jong-mi)