An airplane takes off from the Beijing Capital International Airport. File Photo: VCG
China has halved the amount of time international arrivals and close contacts of COVID-19 patients must spend in centralized quarantine from 14 days to seven days and has drawn a clear standard on what constitutes medium- and high-risk areas. Epidemiologists said the move is a further improvement in the country’s COVID-19 playbook that will provide more balance between antivirus measures and the need to…