Civil unrest has broken out in China as the population tires of the endless cycle of lockdowns in pursuit of the the moronic ’zero Covid’ policy. Worth remembering this was the policy lobbied for by ‘independent’ SAGE.
President Xi’s refusal to abandon his insane zero Covid policy is wreaking havoc with the Chinese economy, depressing retail sales and choking off the nascent recovery.
A team of Chinese and US researchers has predicted over 1.5 million deaths in China from Omicron should the country cease to impose its brutal controls. But that is less than half the UK Covid death rate.
Shanghai officials over the next few days will further restrict access to food and hospitals in the city, the most severe phase of its extended lockdown yet, as China digs in with its Zero Covid strategy.
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.
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?
China's biggest city has been plunged into lockdown as the country struggles to contain the latest outbreak of coronavirus. So much for China's 'zero-Covid' policy.
Disney has closed all its theme parks in Shanghai as China struggles to contain the latest COVID-19 outbreak in yet another indictment of the country's disastrous 'zero-Covid' policy.
