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We may be entering Covid-19’s least predictable year yet
China’s easing of virus restrictions is raising questions about the potential for harmful new variants
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Patients lie on beds at the emergency department of Zhongshan Hospital, amid the outbreak in Shanghai.
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Anjana Ahuja
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The Covid-19 outbreak will be officially three years old on Jan 30, which marks the moment in 2020 when the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the respiratory disease a public health emergency of international concern.
But the anniversary offers little to celebrate in the wake of China’s chaotic and abrupt lurch from zero-Covid to full-Covid
