In a significant calibration of the Covid Zero policy that has isolated the world’s second-largest economy and raised public ire, Chinese health authorities have eased some of the country’s strict Covid-19 rules.

These include a reduction in the amount of time travellers and close contacts of infected people must spend in quarantine.

In The Straits Times’ The Big Story, Multimedia Correspondent Cheow Sue-Ann speaks with China correspondent Elizabeth Law for more on this development.