China's risks pile up as Omicron arrives | Camden-Narellan Advertiser | Camden, NSW

China’s risks pile up as Omicron arrives On the surface, China’s pandemic position looks a lot like Australia’s situation of a few weeks ago. Because of a highly effective suppression strategy, its population has next to no infection-induced immunity, but it has the advantage of widespread vaccination. Why, then, has it not done what most of Australia did with the arrival of the Omicron strain last month, throwing itself into an exit wave that, with luck, should transition the country into an era of endemic, manageable COVID-19? Instead, China is still sealing itself off from the rest of the world,…