Mr Johnson said on Wednesday night: 'I'm in Pelion on essential business trying to Covid-proof my property in view of the upcoming letting season. I need to set up distancing measures at the property because they're taking it very seriously here.'

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BEIJING, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Judging by Friday's quiet streets in China's capital Beijing and the reluctance of some businesses to drop COVID curbs, enduring anxieties about the coronavirus are likely to hamper a speedy return to health for the world's second-largest economy.

On the Beijing subway, many seats were empty on Friday night during what should have been rush hour, even though the city this week scrapped the need to show negative tests to ride trains or enter offices.

Amid the caution, state-broadcaster CCTV announced further easing, with tourism and entertainment venues - including theatres, Delphi greece taxi prices libraries, online taxi Delphi internet cafes and table game centres no longer requiring COVID tests and health codes.



More than 400,000 sunseekers are thought to have had their Greek holidays ruined by government delays in relaxing the global travel warning, along with Greece's decision to ban direct flights from the UK until July 15.

As a Greek news website branded Stanley Johnson's trip 'unbelievable', MPs urged Boris Johnson to explain why his father appears to be bound by a 'different set of rules' to those imposed on ordinary holidaymakers.

Speaking in the Commons, minibus taxi Meteora Liberal Democrat Alistair Carmichael said: 'This is simply further evidence that when it comes to following the rules, it is one rule for the Conservatives and one rule for everyone else.



Mr Shapps said a decision on whether to add Greece to the list would have to wait until at least July 15 when the government in Athens will decide whether to lift its restrictions on travellers from the UK.

Although the government on Wednesday loosened key parts of its strict "zero-COVID" policy that has kept the pandemic largely at bay for the past three years, many people appear wary of being too quick to shake off the shackles.

Little more than a month after the National Health Commission stressed commitment to its strict virus containment policy, saying it was "putting people and lives first", authorities have changed tack and are now telling people they have less to fear.

Zhong Nanshan, Vergina airport bus a prominent Chinese epidemiologist, said that 99% of people now infected with the virus would recover in 7 to 10 days, Delphi airport bus in comments reported by the People's Daily, controlled by the ruling Communist Party.

Yet China has been anything but placid during the past few weeks, rafina to Meteora airport taxi cost with protests against COVID curbs in many cities that marked the biggest show of public discontent since President Xi Jinping came to power a decade ago.