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Wishes for 2023: Put politics, face aside to deal with Covid-19, China

A worker wearing personal protective equipment sits next to waste material outside a fever clinic in Beijing on Dec 19, 2022. PHOTO: AFP
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BEIJING - Under China’s now defunct zero-Covid policy, the Chinese have had the best and the worst of times in the pandemic.

For much of 2021, as Covid-19 raged on around the globe, those of us in China were blissfully ensconced in a giant bubble where, even if you tried, you couldn’t catch the virus because it was so elusive.

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