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(MENAFN-Asia Times) More than two years after a fatal strain of coronavirus was first known in the central city of Wuhan, China remains trapped in a Covid crisis. Lately it is believed that around 400 million people live in some kind of lockdown across the country. One of China’s largest cities, Shanghai, has been paralyzed for a month, with many of its citizens surrounded by erected steel fences. The capital, Beijing, is now racing to avoid a similar fate. The common history of China’s ongoing and increasingly desperate fight against covid-19 combines pride in its early public health successes with...