A senior EU official said, “The response we got from the president was an explanation as to why the protests were happening – explaining that they had an issue three years after COVID, because people were frustrated. were, it was mainly students or teenagers.”
“I think as a way out … now COVID in China was mainly Omicron. The delta variant was much more lethal earlier and Omicron was less lethal, which gave way to more openness with restrictions,” President Xi said. opened up – what we have already seen in some areas,” the EU official said.
EU officials said Michel told Xi that the focus of the first phase of the pandemic in Europe was heavily on isolation, quarantine and testing, but later it shifted to vaccination.