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New Delhi: Thirty months since World Health Organization declared the Covid outbreak as a pandemic and 21 months after the first vaccine was administered in China, Beijing still persists with a draconian ‘zero Covid’ policy despite critics saying that it has undercut the economy, caused hardships for citizens and baffled business leaders. According to experts, the continuation of this policy is driven by several factors ranging from vaccine efficacy, limiting infection and mortality, bureaucratic control, and President Xi’s legitimacy before his imminent re-election for the third time at the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October. “Several...
