Life looks very different in China than it did about a week ago. Mass COVID-19 testing, citywide lockdowns, digital contract tracing and centralized quarantine policies have all been scrapped. Some people in China are cheering the changes, while others are concerned about rising infection rates that are overwhelming the country’s healthcare systems. Rebecca Kanthor reports from Shanghai.
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