To leave bajang, my home base, and go to another city, i first have to get a covet test. That test usually has to be valid for the last forty eight hours. And that will usually give you access to most public places. A failure to have any one of these three things in travelling could land you in quarantine some place for 14 days. If something really does happen, there is a diagnosed case in someone's neighborhood,. The entire neighborhood gets sealed off. It becomes what's called the mid or high risk area. And then people do mass testing. Every resident has to be tested at least once. People are not allowed to leave that area; anyone who has
China’s 1.4 billion people are averaging fewer than 100 cases of Covid-19 a day. All it takes is the willingness to shut down anything at any time.
NPR’s Emily Feng explains from Beijing.
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