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Beijing healthcare workers worry as Covid-19 races through city
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Some Beijing residents have already begun questioning the prudence of abandoning zero-Covid with few mitigation measures in place.
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BEIJING - The city of Beijing rode out the pandemic for almost three years, crushing Covid-19 outbreaks before the virus could overwhelm it. When dozens of cases flared in June 2020, the head of the Chinese capital’s communist party committee vowed to take “the most resolute, decisive and stringent measures to block transmission and control the situation”.
The city’s defences held again in the spring, when targeted measures such as localised quarantines helped it avoid a sweeping lockdown such as the one that immobilised Shanghai for eight weeks.
