Changing Covid-19 testing rules forces Chinese groom to watch his wedding on a live stream outside the ceremony venue | South China Morning Post

Part of getting married in China during the Covid-19 pandemic is ensuring all bureaucratic boxes are ticked for the big day. Unfortunately for one groom in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang autonomous region in western China, keeping track of changing rules was impossible, forcing him to watch a live broadcast of the wedding on Tuesday on WeChat while standing outside the restaurant where the ceremony was held. “The restaurant told us a day before that we needed to bring a negative nucleic acid test result within four days, but, at 12am on the wedding day, they told us that everyone…