The Chinese city that covid forgot
Chinese experiences of the zero-covid policy vary greatly. That helps Communist Party bosses
If China, in some parallel universe, allowed voting on its “zero-covid policy”, the “change course” camp would be gaining ground. Battling new variants of covid-19 ahead of an expected winter surge in infections, officials have imposed partial lockdowns in cities from Xining in the west to Fuzhou in the south. Restaurants have closed, schools have gone online, access to food shops has been limited and millions of people have been plunged into some form of confinement, many for a second or third time.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “The city that covid forgot”
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