People shop for vegetables at a street stall amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Beijing, China December 6, 2022. China has eased compulsory PCR testing. REUTERS/Florence Lo
But the sudden policy shift caught him off guard — left on his own, he had no medication at home to treat his fever. The easing in compulsory PCR testing of China's 1.4 billion people has weakened the ability of health authorities to quickly detect cases and gauge how infections are spreading, disrupting society and the economy.
Officials have urged households to report serious symptoms, using self-administered antigen kits. But those kits are still hard to come by, raising the risk the seriously ill might not be treated promptly.
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