The Financial Times leads with the news that China will remove its travel quarantine rules on 8 January, as part of a broader loosening of the country’s strict Covid rules. But the paper also reports that computer modelling has indicated there could be as many as a million deaths in China as cases rise rapidly.
Sources suggest the UK has moved past its technical recession with first-quarter growth surpassing that of the US and Eurozone, a positive development for Rishi Sunak.