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China’s Covid restrictions may result in hard exit strategy
Updated On: 24 January, 2022 12:25 PM IST | Taipei | Agencies
Despite low Covid-19 cases and ‘zero-tolerance’ strategy, China’s approach lacking hybrid immunity could make it harder for the country to exit the pandemic
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A woman wearing a mask to protect herself walks past a globe shaped sculpture in Beijing on Saturday. Pic/AP
The sweeping “zero-tolerance” strategy that China has used to keep Covid-19 case numbers low and its economy functioning may, paradoxically, make it harder for the country to exit the pandemic. Experts say the Coronavirus around the world isn’t going away and believe it could eventually become, like the flu.
In countries like Britain and the US, which have had comparatively light restrictions against the Omicron wave, there is a glimmer of hope that the process might be underway. The government’s practice throughout the pandemic of trying to find and isolate every infected person has largely protected hospitals from becoming overwhelmed and staved off the deaths that have engulfed most of the world. But the uncompromising approach also means most people in China have never been exposed to the virus.
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