Beijing's insistence on zero-Covid strategy challenges long-held assumptions about China | South China Morning Post

When the New Zealand government acknowledged at the start of October that it cannot eliminate Covid-19 , that left China (including Hong Kong and Macau) as the only major country still pursuing a zero-Covid strategy. This is not just a public health choice; it is also likely to have long-term economic and geopolitical consequences. There is little doubt that before the arrival of Covid-19 vaccines , the strict suppression approach pioneered by China - and mimicked across East Asia - was highly effective in limiting the spread of the coronavirus, preventing health-care systems from being crushed, and giving societies a…