China eases curbs in major shift in 'zero Covid' policy to quell discontent

China eased a range of Covid restrictions Wednesday, including allowing some people to quarantine at home rather than in centralized camps and scrapping test requirements to enter most public venues, in a sharp change in national strategy to quell public discontent and fire up the economy again. 
 

The 10 new measures include accelerating vaccination among the elderly and forbidding local officials to designate large areas, like entire housing compounds, as high-risk. 

Bloomberg News reported earlier that changes were imminent. 

The new list of 10 adds to a first round of easing a month ago in the form of 20 measures to refine