China's pursuing a policy known as zero covet. It means keeping coved as close to zero cases as possible from day to day. Emily fang is ant p r's china correspondent based in bajing. She says china usually has less than 100 new cases of coved per day and that's mine boggling.
China’s 1.4 billion people are averaging fewer than 100 cases of Covid-19 a day. All it takes is the willingness to shut down anything at any time.
NPR’s Emily Feng explains from Beijing.
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