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After nearly three years of attempting to stamp out the virus, the sudden end of mass testing and quarantines has led to a corresponding drop in officially reported infections, which hit an all-time high only last month.With testing no longer required for much of the country, China's National Health Commission on Wednesday admitted its numbers no longer reflected reality."Many asymptomatic people are no longer participating in nucleic acid testing, so it is impossible to accurately grasp the actual number of asymptomatic infected people," the NHC said in a statement. The statement comes after Vice Premier Sun Chunlan said the capital's new infections were "rapidly growing", according to state media.Chinese leaders are determined to press ahead with opening up, with Beijing's tourism authority saying Tuesday that it would resume tour groups in and out of the capital.But the country is facing a surge in cases that experts fear it is ill-equipped to manage,...