Repeated lockdowns do nothing.
China is facing a new strong wave of Covid-19, with the number of daily cases rising for three consecutive weeks now.
More than 16,000 positive cases were identified in 24 hours on Monday, including 407 in the capital Beijing - a record.
Asymptomatic people are not necessarily counted in this count (in Beijing, 237 of the 407 new positive cases detected show symptoms).
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Last Thursday, Chinese leaders reaffirmed their "unwavering" desire to maintain their "zero Covid" policy.
This provides in particular, since the start of the pandemic, for almost daily screenings for the population, compulsory quarantines for people who test positive or even confinements as soon as a few cases appear.
Slow industrial activity
Many epidemiologists believe that such a strategy has not been appropriate for several months.
“It is neither sustainable nor proportionate over time, especially with an Omicron variant which manages to break through immune barriers more easily and which has an incubation period
(separating infection from the onset of symptoms and contagiousness , Editor's note)
much shorter,” Antoine Flahault, director of the Geneva Institute for Global Health, told us last February.
In several cities, such as Zhengzhou, industrial activity is slowing down due to the restrictions imposed.
As for the population, they are openly protesting in some areas against food shortages and delayed medical responses for people confined, despite censorship.
On Friday, Beijing still announced on Friday the relaxation of several anti-Covid measures for travelers arriving from abroad, including a reduction in quarantine on arrival and the end of the abrupt cancellation of flights.
