

Welcome to life in the country which now feels like a perpetual, back-to-zero-Covid world.Ĭhina was the first country to impose restrictions to combat this pandemic and it will be one of the last to ease them. © Getty ImagesĬhina has stuck by its zero-Covid strategy with mass testing as other countries grapple with living with the virus In Shanghai Disneyland, 33,863 visitors suddenly have to undergo mass testing because a visitor the day before got infected. One crew member on a high-speed train has close contact with an infected person, and a trainload of passengers is sent to quarantine for mass testing. In China however, a hard elimination policy remains where the pandemic first began.Ī person walks into a five-star hotel to ask briefly for directions and ends up in two weeks quarantine because a guest had some coronavirus contact. Around the world people are getting used to post-lockdown life with vaccines doing the heavy lifting against Covid-19 as restrictions are lifted.
