China has shortened the COVID-19 quarantine time for inbound international travelers and refined the designation of medium- and high-risk areas, in an effort to cope with the highly infectious Omicron variant more precisely.
Beijing has continued to report new COVID-19 cases at the community level in recent days, which has added to the uncertainty during the current complicated epidemic control and prevention situation, a senior official said.
China has reported no human or animal cases of monkeypox, whose recent emergence in Europe and North America has triggered global concerns, said health experts.
Shanghai has divided the whole city into areas belonging to three categories as part of targeted efforts to overcome a local COVID-19 resurgence.
A community worker writes down the needs of an elder resident at an area under temporary closed-off management in Fengxian District of east China's Shanghai, March 29, 2022.