“Starting tomorrow (March 1), the government is abolishing the mandatory wearing of masks, including indoors, outdoors and in public transport,” RIA Novosti quoted Li as saying on the Chinese social network Weibo.

He noted that after the lifting of the mask regime, Hong Kong will return to normal life.

Earlier, the head of the office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, a member of the Politburo, Wang Yi, said that China had successfully overcome the coronavirus pandemic.