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Unsustainable envelopment goals: China’s zero-covid fight

The Intelligence from The Economist

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Zero Coved Strategy in China

Omacron seems, basically across the world, to have got a foothold no matter what people did in terms of public health. Amacron does seem almost tailor made to frustrate china's zero covid machinery. It can be quite hard to detect early because symptoms are often mild or people are asymptomatic. And it's so transmissible that can overwhelm any contract tracing effort. So it's going to be quite difficult for the zero coi strategy to work as well as it has done until now.

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