Covid ripped through China following the end of all restrictions last month. Now, after three difficult years, many Chinese are ready to get on with their lives.
. But by the end of the month, state media was holding the city up as a rapid recovery success story.
Since the outbreak of the virus just before Spring Festival in 2020, those employed far from home in construction or manufacturing were strongly encouraged by officials to forgo their once-a-year visit home over the Lunar New Year and remain wherever they were employed. Official propaganda has spurred on the sense of a new beginning. For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, a covid-themed skit was absent from the state broadcaster’s annual Spring Festival gala, the variety show switched on in almost all Chinese homes on Lunar New Year’s eve. Its live audience did not wear masks.
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