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Covid: lessons from the sinking of Chinese strategy

2022-05-03T18:19:25.180Z


ANALYSIS - China's very aggressive "zero Covid" strategy is gradually collapsing in the face of the coronavirus and its variants.


For almost two years, from April 2020 to mid-March 2022, the official Covid toll in China remained frozen at a total of only 4,630 dead.

An incredibly small number of deaths given the gigantic size of the country, and which was solely attributable to the start of the epidemic in Wuhan at the end of 2019.

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Is this figure correct?

We can certainly doubt it, like everything that is the responsibility of Chinese propaganda, but the significant absence of deaths for almost two years is on the other hand completely credible in view of the efforts made by the Beijing regime to hinder circulation of the virus.

We remember that from January 2020, at the very beginning of the epidemic, the authorities did not hesitate to isolate the tens of millions of inhabitants of the Wuhan region from the rest of the country to prevent the spread of Sars-CoV-2.

Seen from abroad, the solution seemed disproportionate, and above all, it arrived much too late to prevent the spread of the disease to the rest...

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Source: lefigaro

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