BEIJING: Businesses reopened and testing requirements were relaxed in Beijing and other Chinese cities on Monday as the East Asian country tentatively eases out of a strict "zero Covid" policy that sparked nationwide protests.

Local authorities across China have begun a slow rollback of the restrictions that have governed daily life for years, encouraged by the central government's orders for a new approach to fighting the coronavirus.

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