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As China lifts pandemic border controls, mixed feelings at home and abroad

A woman celebrates at Hong Kong's Lok Ma Chau border checkpoint on the first day China reopens the border amid the Covid-19 pandemic in Hong Kong on Sunday. (Reuters)

HONG KONG: Over the past three years, Zhou Wanhui, a Hong Kong resident, has visited her parents in China just three times.

Although they live only two hours away by train, Covid restrictions made it so difficult to cross the Hong Kong border into mainland China that one of Zhou’s trips included a three-hour flight to Shanghai and nearly a month of quarantine in two cities.

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