While China s infection rate is low by global standards, it maintains a zero-Covid policy, citing the need to protect the elderly and the medical system, even as other countries try to live with the virus
Beijing said on Saturday that all 61 new coronavirus cases uncovered in the city on Friday had either visited the Heaven Supermarket Bar or had links to it, Reuters reported.
Coronavirus-driven disruptions to economic activity have affected 160 million people this year and cost 18 trillion yuan (US$2.68 trillion), a top economist says, more than 10 times the toll of the Wuhan outbreak in 2020.