Zero Covid failing: China virus cases highest in nearly two years, weeks before Olympics


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A medical worker takes a swab sample from a woman to test for the Covid-19 in Beijing / © AFP The number of Covid-19 cases in China reached its highest level since March 2020 on Monday, as Beijing races to smother outbreaks just three weeks before hosting the Winter Olympics. China, where the virus first emerged in late 2019, has stuck to a strict policy of targeting zero Covid cases even as the rest of the world has reopened. But its approach has come under sustained pressure in recent weeks with multiple clusters across the country just as the Games...