Chinese make travel plans as Covid rules ease further

BEIJING: Chinese people, cut off from the rest of the world for three years by Covid-19 curbs, flocked to travel sites on Tuesday ahead of borders reopening, even as rising infections further strained the health system and roiled the economy.
Zero-tolerance measures – from shuttered borders to frequent lockdowns – have battered China’s economy since early 2020, fuelling last month the mainland’s biggest show of public discontent since President Xi Jinping took power in 2012.
His policy U-turn…