Local officials have been handed an impossible task of avoiding lockdowns while managing case numbers. They, like us, may be asking: is this really the plan?
of the virus, the answer is surely that it does not. The official tally of cases is falling, but that is probably because people are being tested less often. Not long ago the aim was to suppress every infection chain. Today social media suggest that an alarming and rapidly growing number of Chinese people know someone who has caught the disease.
Given that China was already struggling to contain the disease, this is an odd time to loosen restrictions. Other once-isolated places, such as Singapore and Taiwan, prepared for a spike in cases by administering vaccines, stockpiling anti-viral drugs and expanding intensive-care units ; only then did they gradually open up. China seems to be throwing precaution to the winds.
A more accountable government might have acknowledged its errors, while laying out the steps needed to leave zero-covid gradually, when life-saving measures were in place. But Xi Jinping and the Communist Party are rushing ahead, ready or not.beds to handle a big outbreak. It has not trained enough medical staff, nor adopted protocols on which patients to treat and where.
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