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Want to buy a repurposed Covid testing booth? In China, you can

Since the Chinese government wrapped up its so-called zero-Covid public health policy in December 2022, dozens of Covid testing booths have been put up for sale on the Chinese site Taobao. © Taobao / The Observers

Thousands of booths where people once took Covid-19 tests fell out of use when the Chinese government ended its Zero-Covid policy in December 2022. Since then, some of these booths have been put up for sale online in the hope that someone will give them a second life.

The Chinese government installed Covid testing booths on streets all across China as part of Zero-Covid, a public health policy that used mass testing as a strategy to suppress the virus. However, all of these booths became defunct on December 7, 2022, when Chinese authorities dropped the policy after three years.

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