Shanghai Begins News Covid Lockdown.
China’s zero tolerance Covid policy is playing out in Shanghai with fresh lockdowns. (AP News)
“China began its most extensive coronavirus lockdown in two years Monday to conduct mass testing and control a growing outbreak in Shanghai as questions are raised about the economic toll of the nation’s “zero-COVID” strategy.
Shanghai, China’s financial capital and largest city with 26 million people, had managed its smaller previous outbreaks with limited lockdowns of housing compounds and workplaces where the virus was spreading.
But the citywide lockdown that will be conducted in two phases will be China’s most extensive since the central city of Wuhan, where the virus was first detected in late 2019, confined its 11 million people to their homes for 76 days in early 2020. Millions more have been kept in lockdown since then.”
Shanghai entering the latest lockdown is a stark reminder that Covid is still around and continuing to upend the lives of people around the Globe. China has a strict 0 tolerance policy that is taking an economic toll as the pandemic is now in its third year. If the lockdowns prove effective they may continue until the pandemic is completely over but such restrictions would prove untenable in this nation. That leaves America relying on vaccines to halt the next surge that seems more inevitable every day.
