Tag: Zero Covid

The protests against China's ruthless Zero Covid policy continue to grow as President Xi Jinping shows no sign of changing tack despite even Hong Kong easing towards a more liberal approach.

China’s Zero Covid policy remains very much in place while others, notably New Zealand’s, have been suddenly and embarrassingly abandoned. But will that change after the CCP National Congress in October?

Australia's disastrous attempt to eliminate the virus cost the country over $938 billion, a new report has found. The lessons of this failed, harmful policy must be learned and the mistakes never repeated.

The Lancet COVID-19 Commission report has said the virus may have leaked from a US lab and implies that Government agencies may be covering it up, in a report that otherwise pushes a standard Zero Covid line.

Panicked Chinese residents in the Chinese city of Chengdu have been clambering over each other at supermarket counters and stripping shelves bare amid fears that lockdown could result in food shortages.

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.

"Ultimately, New Zealand’s Zero Covid strategy was immoral, incoherent and a grand failure," writes Stanford Professor of Medicine Dr Jay Bhattacharya.

Covid death rates have reached record highs in New Zealand as the country faces a new Omicron wave, despite high levels of vaccination.

The Government considered tearing “mothers and fathers and families and children” from their homes if they tested positive for Covid during lockdowns to be sent to isolation centres, a minister has admitted.

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.