Introduction

Mimi Lau explains some of the problems facing China's strict zero COVID policy. The World Cup coverage seems to show everyone in the world has moved on to living with COVID, except for China. People are noticing that people in Qatar are not wearing face masks and it seems like they don't have to do mass COVID testing every day. Mimi Lau: Almost one quarter of the entire population of Minglan, China is in some form of lockdown as daily cases of Omicron surge passed 29,000.