BEIJING - Living and reporting in “zero-Covid” China over the past three years often felt like living an alternate reality.
When a “mysterious pneumonia” first surfaced in early 2020 and many started hoarding masks and sanitiser, others elsewhere thought it was simply a country overreacting.
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