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Financial Times (June 9)

2022/ 06/ 12 by jd in Global News

“China is building hundreds of thousands of permanent coronavirus testing facilities and expanding quarantine centres across many of its biggest cities as part of its zero-Covid policy, despite the economic and human toll on the world’s most populous country.” Only a week after the Shanghai lockdowns mostly ended, a new one affecting 2 million residents has been announced. Experts now “believe the government’s virus infrastructure programme is designed to sustain the mass-testing and quarantine policies through 2023.”

 

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