If you test positive at a different location or with an at-home test, you can also go to these Test-to-Treat locations to receive a prescription from a qualified health care provider and treatment on the spot. On a rain-soaked Sunday, dozens of students gathered at a university in the city to protest its COVID policies, according to videos widely shared on Twitter. There are now Test to Treat locations where you can get both COVID-19 testing and treatment. Reuters was able to verify that the incident happened in Wuhan. In the central city of Wuhan, where the virus first emerged in late 2019, people under lockdown at a garment industrial park broke out of a COVID lockdown by pushing down barriers on Saturday, video clips posted on Twitter showed. ANGER SIMMERS Although the heat of last week's protests appears to have died down as many wait for clarity on the future of COVID management, there remain some instances of frustrations boiling over. The scrapping of the rule for showing negative tests to buy medicines for cold and fever in various cities, a step intended to deter people from using the drugs to disguise symptoms, has led to mass buying, some state media said. The capital, Beijing, has also dropped testing for public transport, but entry to many office buildings still requires negative tests, leaving workers confused. The eastern province of Zhejiang said it planned to largely end mass testing, while the metropolis of Nanjing dropped COVID tests for use of public transport. "Do not repeat testing or increase testing," they said. Authorities in the southwestern municipality of Chongqing urged local bodies not to test too much. In recent days, major cities across China have continued to loosening the severest of those measures. Since January 2020, China has classified COVID-19 as a Category B infectious disease but has managed it under Category A protocols, giving authorities the power to put patients and their close contacts into quarantine and lockdown regions. As we enter a less turbulent phase of the pandemic, LA County is now moving COVID-19 testing beyond crisis mode and into our standard health care services. As the virus weakens, conditions are improving for China to scale back management of COVID-19 as a serious contagious disease, state media outlet Yicai said late on Sunday, in comments that are among the first to float the idea.
That change in messaging aligns with the position adopted by many health authorities around the world for more than a year. Alongside the easing of local curbs, Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, who oversees COVID efforts, said last week the ability of the virus to cause disease was weakening. "All we want is to recover at home, by ourselves," she told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. She added that they feared the risk of being thrown into government quarantine facilities, described by many as shoddily built and unhygienic. Yin, a resident of a small city near Beijing, the capital, said her in-laws had come down with a fever and she herself now had a sore throat, but they did not want to be tested. But until then, a lack of clarity has left some scared of being caught on the wrong side of fast-changing rules.
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