Virus surges amid China's 'zero-COVID' reversal

Published: Jan. 11, 2023, 9:10 a.m.

A little over a month after China was enforcing some of the world\u2019s strictest COVID-19 policies, the country has now removed most of those restrictions. \n\nThis followed unusually widespread and sustained protests in December. Mass testing and quarantining has ended. On Sunday, China lifted international travel restrictions for the first time in three-years.\n\nBut while the government\u2019s numbers on COVID-19 cases and deaths remain low or unavailable, accounts from inside the country indicate the virus is spreading faster than ever. Today on Front Burner, Wall Street Journal China bureau chief Jonathan Cheng gives us a look at what\u2019s happening in Beijing after China\u2019s policy reversal.