China reported a hundred and 74 official new covid cases on sunday. 96 of them were in the capital, bejing. They're small numbers to anyone but communist party leaders who are sticking resolutely to zero covid policies. In shanghai, that's meant a stark two month lockdown. But there are signs that numbers there are declining.
China’s Communist Party leaders have painted themselves into a corner: they cannot be seen to put the capital into lockdown, but permitting covid to spread could be catastrophic. We look into the myriad reasons behind America’s sharp shortages of baby formula, and how to solve them. And why it is illegal for women to get a manicure in Turkmenistan.
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