End of Covid Zero Threatens to Overwhelm China With Infections
- China is rapidly giving up on policies that suppressed Covid
- Deaths may reach 2.1 million, according to research firm
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China faces a daunting task after abruptly giving up on Covid Zero, with infections set to surge and deaths predicted to top 2 million.
The world’s most populous nation is rapidly abandoning the mass testing, lockdowns and centralized quarantine that defined the stringent, three year-old policy. Yet little time has been spent putting in place the mitigation measures needed to deal with the resulting explosion in cases, which could total 5.6 million a day at the peak, according to some estimates.