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Workers put a mask on a 57 metre Buddhist goddess statue in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Photo: Reuters Opinion Nancy S. Jecker Is the zero-Covid approach of China and Japan about saving face? Two strategies have emerged to deal with the coronavirus: mitigation, favoured by the US and Europe, and elimination, which dominates in Asia Mitigation leaves people free to decide on the risks they take, but in collectivist-leaning societies, one owes it to others not to become sickened
