Tag: Zero Covid

"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.

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.

This week, Zero Covid proponents like anthropologist Devi Sridhar have been out in force to try to save their legacy and regain control of the narrative. But they mustn't be allowed to rewrite history.

Jacinda Arden has finally given up on her bonkers Zero Covid policy. From today, New Zealanders will be able to return to their country. Some have been stranded overseas for more than a year.

We're publishing another dispatch from our anonymous Hong Kong correspondent on the Daily Sceptic about the catastrophic consequences of the Chinese Communist Party's Zero Covid policy.

Two years on from the first lockdown, Xi Jinping has persuaded the people of China that he has protected them as though a father caring for children. But will Omicron and the Olympics prove his undoing?