Chinese Cities, Factories Tell People With Covid to Go Back to Work
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Chinese workers with mild Covid are being told to go back to work in some cities, evidence of a complete reversal in the way the virus is being viewed as officials seek to limit the economic impact of an explosion in cases as the country reopens.
Government workers in the western metropolis of Chongqing were told to continue working if they were asymptomatic or experiencing mild Covid symptoms, authorities said at the weekend. Officials in Zhejiang, a manufacturing hub on China’s east coast, and a city in the nearby province of Anhui, also green-lit Covid-positive people working this week, according to local media reports.