China scraps tracking app amid widespread dismantling of zero-Covid policy
by Helen Davidson in Taipei from World news | The Guardian on (#66R1E)
Health authorities sound warning on infection rate, with hundreds of thousands of doctors redeployed across the country
China announced plans to scrap its primary Covid tracking app in the latest rollback of pandemic control measures, just days after abruptly abandoning its long-running zero-Covid policy.
It came as health authorities warned of widespread infections on the horizon, and redeployed hundreds of thousands of doctors and nurses to intensive care units in preparation for an Omicron surge through the population of 1.4 billion people.
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