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Beijing begins to ease Covid rules, but business areas remain deserted
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube The Chinese capital Beijing has begun easing some of its strict Covid-control rules, including scrapping the requirement for a negative Covid test to use public transport. Despite the move, which took effect on November 5, 2022, people are still required to test negative within 48 hours to access office buildings, as much of Beijing’s central business…
Cuba: A deserted revolution? | Talk to Al Jazeera: In the Field
Cuba is witnessing an economic crisis that has taken the country back 30 years, to the so-called “Special Period”. As then, when subsidies from the former Soviet Union vanished, Cubans are suffering hardships and acute shortages of everything, from food to fuel. The difference is that today, many tell you that the worst shortage is of hope. And so, a new mass exodus of Cubans…