Originally Posted by
narvik
They are opening up, because they now [suddenly in some cases] have so many cases themselves (S. Korea is at ~300'000/day), it seems futile to still require quarantine. New Zealand did the same thing.
China hasn't got many cases, so they won't open up, IMO. In fact, the more the gap is between other countries count, and China's, the more likely they'll increase quarantine.
Of course.....this will all change if/when the cases start skyrocketing in China also....
It appears that Shanghai is now approaching "bad" status in terms of case numbers. And, the effects are starting to show. For example, both JA Kerry Centre and Reel Plaza were locked down last night. Furthermore, if any of us fancy going to Zhejiang, we need to quarantine there. Finally, some of the international schools here have implemented insanely intense testing regimens (e.g. 2 tests per day of various flavors).