SHANGHAI – A tough decision to lockdown Shanghai, China’s largest city, shocked the world.
After six weeks, and despite a sharp decline in infections, Shanghai’s lockdown has imposed enormous costs on the city and its residents. Given that the omicron variant has a low mortality rate among the vaccinated, and much of the rest of the world has been convinced to shift their strategies from lockdowns and movement restrictions to mass immunization, critics wonder why China’s “COVID zero” policy is here to stay.
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