Sentiment towards zero-covid has shifted rapidly over the past two weeks. On December 7th the central government announced the end of unnecessary testing and allowed quarantining at home for asymptomatic cases after protests against prolonged, heavy-handed restrictions broke out in cities across the country. The policy shift is the most dramatic since China closed to international travel in early 2020. The zero-covid mantra was to test as many people as possible and then to quarantine not only the infected but their contacts and even the contacts of those contacts. What is next to China’s covid-19 policy ?

