China announced on Monday the withdrawal of the application used to track the movements of residents and ensure that they were not in an affected area, a new symbol of the departure of the zero Covid strategy.
The app would display the list of cities or even districts the person had been to. If none were classified as “high risk” (with a large number of cases), the app displayed a green arrow, synonymous with authorized passage.
The “Travel Map”, in charge of the central government, will be deactivated from midnight this Tuesday, more than two years after its launch, according to an official statement.
The move comes less than a week after China announced a sudden and drastic relaxation of health measures, a very clear departure from its “covid zero” policy, aimed at avoiding deaths.
On Wednesday, in particular, he announced the end of the massive confinements and the end of the systematic admissions of people who tested positive in quarantine centers, denigrated establishments, with highly variable comforts.
“All this marks the end of an era”
Although the official number of new cases has decreased in recent days, it does not reflect the reality of the current epidemic wave. Because it only takes into account the PCR tests carried out by the laboratories, and not the self-tests that are carried out in the privacy of the home and that the majority of the inhabitants do not declare.
“Ciao ciao! All this marks the end of an era. And the beginning of a completely new one…”, a user of the Weibo social network reacted this Monday, in tune with the general tone of the comments. Others wonder what will happen to the mass of data collected by the app.
“I hope there are ways and measures to disconnect and delete all this,” stressed one user.
Source: BFM TV
