Chinese leadership abandoned its zero-COVID strategy practically overnight. The consequences promise to be enormous. Rural areas in particular will struggle with the suddenly spiking caseload in the country.
She is negative and no longer contagious. Finally, she is allowed to leave the quarantine center – and return to a country that has changed dramatically during the time she was forced to spend in this candy-colored container shelter in northeastern Beijing. The authorities kept her here for nine days, behind a fence festooned with warning signs:"COVID prevention and control. Please do not approach.
For almost three years, the Chinese leadership stubbornly pursued its zero-COVID strategy, with the state-controlled media gushing with praise for the"dynamic zero." Almost every day, news outlets in the country made a point of saying that it was only thanks to the wise leadership of state and party leader Xi Jinping that China had been able to defeat the treacherous virus.
Instead, the black market is flourishing. You can obtain the drug Paxlovid, which can reduce the viral load if taken promptly after infection, but a single package currently costs 2,980 yuan, the equivalent of 400 euros. It isn’t even clear, though, whether the black-market version of the drug contains what it is supposed to or if the pills are just thrown together with whatever ingredients might be available.
Thus far, the virus has primarily infected residents of the country’s largest cities. But what will happen if COVID begins spreading unchecked in the countryside? Almost 40 percent of the population still lives in villages, with many of them elderly. Their children have largely moved away to work in the factories of southern China or eastern China, where they sew sports shoes and solder circuit boards for smartphones and computers.
On November 15, for example, an article proclaimed:"It is imperative that a country with a population of 1.4 billion people be able to maintain the bottom line of dynamic zero." "To be honest, I’m surprised at how quickly it has gone," Zhang Tongtong says."There were a number of factors that forced the government to open up. The protests surely accelerated the process."
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