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At China's pivotal 20th Communist Party congress earlier this month, paramount leader Xi Jinping hailed the country's zero-Covid approach as an all-out people's war. The strategy – a combination of lockdowns, vaccinations and contact tracing that China has pursued for nearly three years – had protected public health, he said. What was missing were any clues on whether the policy.
US President Joe Biden’s declaration last week that the Covid-19 pandemic is over in the United States lit a firestorm domestically and globally. Days before the bold declaration, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters that the end of the pandemic was “in sight”, though he stressed it had not arrived yet. WHO later clarified that.