Tag: Zero Covid

It may be the beginning of the end for Jacinda Ardern, says Nicholas Sheppard, as rumours of her stepping down soon are now frequently being put to journalists.

President Xi’s Zero Covid is the contemporary equivalent of China’s one-child policy – a form of totalitarian control that has become an end in itself, argues Ian Williams in the Spectator.

Wuhan has been plunged back into lockdown as more than 800,000 people have been told to stay at home until the end of the week, in the latest move in China's maniacal, unending war against the virus.

New Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has a woeful record on lockdowns: a Zero Covid proponent, he has praised China's response, voted for vaccine passports and opposed ending lockdowns until infections drop below 1,000 a day.

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.