In further proof of the futility of restrictions in suppressing an infectious respiratory virus, reported infections in Shanghai continue to rise amidst one of the world's strictest lockdowns.
Markets have been spooked by the prospect of the severe Shanghai lockdown – now in its fourth week – being extended to Beijing as one district in the city is sealed off following a few dozen positive Covid tests.
Authorities in Shanghai have started fencing off areas were residents are suspected of having Covid and fears that similar measures will shortly be taken in Beijing have prompted panic buying.
There was, without a doubt and in the earliest stages, a kind of lockdown cabal, a small group of people who worked to bring some simulacrum of the Hubei response first to Italy and then to most of the globe.
China has locked down its largest city, Shanghai, and quarantined in camps the 20,000 who've tested positive, but claims only 300 are symptomatic. Are the rest false positives, now confined with the infectious?
Hong Kong has sent traditional Chinese medicine to three million residents telling them it works against COVID-19. But the few Chinese studies claiming efficacy are of very poor standard.
Hong Kong has been suffering a brain drain after years of enduring first anti-democracy crackdown and more recently Zero Covid lunacy.
Thirty million people are in lockdown in China following an outbreak of Omicron. Yet further evidence, if any were needed, that China's zero-Covid policy is a complete disaster.
China is experiencing its largest outbreak of Covid infections in two years, with millions being locked in their homes, suggesting its 'zero-Covid' policy is a disaster.
South East Asian countries are experiencing their deadliest Covid waves to date despite the milder Omicron variant being dominant and high vaccination rates. This was not part of anyone's plan.
