The head of China’s Covid response efforts, said the country is “facing a new situation” as it tackles a highly infectious but less deadly variant of the virus.
36,061 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, hovering close to the country’s daily record high, reported earlier this week. However, China’s per-capita infection rate remains significantly lower than most countries in the West including the U.S.As daily Covid-19 numbers reached record highs, the effectiveness of the zero-Covid strategy came under question.
against the government and China’s leader Xi Jinping—with some protestors chanting for his resignation.The biggest challenge China faces in reversing its harsh lockdown policies is the low uptake of vaccines among its elderly. Only 65.7% of people over the age of 80 have been fully vaccinated and an even smaller number of them—40%—have received booster shots, state-controlled newspaper.
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