BEIJING: China's capital showed tentative signs of a return to normal on Thursday after a sudden reversal of a hardline coronavirus pandemic policy that hammered the world's second-biggest economy and ignited rare protests.

Beijing's National Health Commission (NHC) announced on Wednesday a nationwide loosening of its "zero-Covid" restrictions, reducing the scope of mandatory testing, allowing some positive cases to quarantine at home, and ending large-scale lockdowns.

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