Opinion | China Turns Covid Victory Into Defeat

What precisely is the perform of China’s zero-Covid lockdowns, which individually and cumulatively now are far larger than even the Wuhan lockdown in early 2020, when the illness was poorly understood, remedies hadn’t been recognized, and vaccines had been nonetheless months away?

The present lockdown in Shanghai and a lately relaxed one in Shenzhen pressured 43 million folks to stay of their houses and depend on authorities meals deliveries. These had been the largest shutdowns the nation has but tried, geared toward two important entrepôts of the worldwide economic system.