An equitable route forward from China’s ‘zero COVID’ policy. Correspondence from Zhicheng Wang, Kit Chan, Adrienne N. Poon & Yan Guo
Over the past 3 years, China’s ‘zero COVID' policy has contained numerous outbreaks and averted an estimated 1.5 million deaths across all socio-economic strata. The emergence of highly transmissible Omicron variants of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has demonstrated that sustaining this policy is unfeasible, with mounting economic costs and growing public dissatisfaction.
This was further streamlined to 10 measures in early December as the most substantial move so far toward living with the virus. This included allowing home isolation for mild symptoms, dropping testing requirements for most venues and domestic travel, implementing targeted rather than large-scale lockdowns, and emphasizing the vaccination and boosting of people over 60 years of age.
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