China's abrupt reopening causes cases to spiral
Experts predict difficult months ahead for its 1.4 billion people. China's unyielding 'zero-COVID' approach, which aimed to isolate all infected people, bought it years to prepare for the disease. But an abrupt reopening, which was announced without warning on Dec. 7 in the wake of anti-lockdown protests, has caught the nation under-vaccinated and short on hospital capacity.