China's success taming virus could make exit strategy harder

The sweeping “zero-tolerance” strategy that China has used to keep COVID-19 case numbers low and its economy functioning may, paradoxically, make it harder for the country to exit the pandemic.

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, Here Isa Glimmer Of Hope That The Process Might Be Underway Cases Skyrocketed In Recent Weeks But Have Since Dropped Britain And May Leveled Off Us , Erhaps Because The Extremely Contagious Variant Is Running Out Of People To Infect Some Places Already Are Talking About Easing Covid 19 Precautions China , Hich Will Be In The International Spotlight When Beijing Winter Olympics Begin Two Weeks , S Not Seeing The Same Dynamic Communist Governments Practice Throughout Pandemic Of Trying To Find And Isolate Every Infected Person Has Largely Protected Hospitals From Becoming Overwhelmed Staved Off Deaths That Have Engulfed Most World But Uncompromising Approach Also Means People In China Never Been Exposed Virus At Time , He Effectiveness Of Chinas Most Widely Used Vaccines Has Been Called Into Question New Studies Suggest They Offer Significantly Less Protection Against Infection From Omicron , Ven After Three Doses , Han People Get After Booster Shots Of The Leading Western Vaccines Together , Hose Factors Could Complicate Chinas Effort To Get Past The Pandemic Experts Say If Country Of 1 4 Billion People Were Relax Restrictions , T Could Facea Surge Similar To What Singapore Or Australia Experienced , Espitea Highly Vaccinated Population Chinas Susceptibility To Outbreaks Is Likely Be More Because Most People Have Not Been Exposed The Virus Due Stringent Measures That Were Put In Place , Hus Lacking Hybrid Immunity , Hich Is Supposed To Prove Better Protection Than Vaccination Alone , Aid Dr Vineeta Bal , N Immunologist At The Indian Institute Of Science Education And Research It Is Risky For China To Reopen Right Now Because Omicron Spreading Globally , Nd Even If The Variant Doesnt Cause Major Illness , T Ll Spread Like Wildfire , He Added Dali Yang , A Professor Who Studies Chinese Politics At The University Of Chicago , Aid , T Sa Big Challenge , For Leaders , Specially Their Rhetoric On Saving Lives How Do You Justify Opening Up And Then Having Tens Of Thousands People Dying In The Process Chinese President Xi Jinping Has Cited Chinas Approach Asa Major Strategic Success Evidence Significant Advantages Its Political System Over Western Liberal Democracies Worlds Most Populous Nation Was Only Economy To Grow 2020 , Nd It Accounted Fora Fraction Of Global Deaths And Infections As Part The Countrys Tough Minded Strategy For Keeping Virus At Bay , Esidents In Chinese Cities Must Display Their Infection Status Ona Government Monitored App To Enter Supermarkets , Ffices Or Even The Capital But Weeks Ahead Of Olympics , Micron Is Testing This Approach With Outbreaks In The Southern Province Of Guangdong , S Well As Beijing Organizers Of The Olympics Announced They Will Not Sell Tickets Locally And Allow Only Select Spectators In Foreign Fans Are Allowed Authorities Have Also Asked People To Visit Their Hometowns Around Lunar New Year At Start February , A Move That Will Dampen Spending During Chinas Most Important Family Holiday And The Major City Of Xi An In West Parts Ningbo , A Busy Port South Of Shanghai , Re Under Lockdown With The Communist Party Gearing Up Fora Major Meeting This Fall , T Which Xi Is Expected To Be Appointed Toa Third Term As Party Leader , Hina Is Unlikely To Relax Its Policies Ina Major Way Any Time Soon If The Numbers From Covid Start Skyrocket Big Levels , Hen This Will Reflect Badly On His Leadership , Aid Willy Lam , N Expert On Chinese Political Leadership At The University Of Hong Kong China Relies Heavily Its Own Sinovac And Sinopharm Vaccines , Long With Several Others Made Domestically It Has Not Approved The Pfizer Shot , Ven Thougha Chinese Company Bought Distribution Rights In 2020 Instead , He Focus Is On Developing Chinas Own Mrna Vaccines , Ike The Pfizer And Moderna Formulas One Such Vaccine Is In Late Trials Another Option For China May Be To Track How Virus Evolving Put Off Opening Its Borders Until It Becomes Even Milder But Anyone Guess When Or If That Might Happen What Will Next Variant Serious You Cant Tell , Taal Said ,