BEIJING - Millions of urban workers were on the move across China on Wednesday (Jan 18) ahead of the expected Friday peak of its Lunar New Year mass migration, as China's leaders looked to get its Covid-battered economy moving. Unfettered when officials last month ended three years of some of the world's tightest Covid-19 restrictions, workers streamed into railway stations...
A medical worker helps a patient receiving treatment at the emergency department of a hospital, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Shanghai, China, on Jan 17, 2023.BEIJING - Millions of urban workers were on the move across China on Wednesday ahead of the expected Friday peak of its Lunar New Year mass migration, as China's leaders looked to get its Covid-battered economy moving.
Any protracted slowdown could worsen the policy challenges facing President Xi Jinping, who must pacify a pessimistic younger generation who took to the streets in November in historic protests against the "zero-Covid" policy he was then championing. But as workers flood out of megacities, such as Shanghai, where officials say the virus has peaked, many are heading to towns and villages where unvaccinated elderly have yet to be exposed to Covid and health care systems are less equipped.As the Covid surge intensified, some were putting the virus out of their mind as they headed for the departure gates.
"Now it doesn't matter anymore. Now it's okay if you get infected. You'll just be sick for two days only," Jiang, aged 30, told Reuters. Clinics in rural villages and towns are now being fitted with oxygenators, and medical vehicles have also been deployed to places considered at risk.
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