China’s Toll The rare outburst -- in a country where most people acquiesce to the government and local leaders have been removed for failing to control the virus -- underscores the toll being extracted by China’s approach almost two years into the pandemic.
Beijing has held fast to the strategy -- which relies on constant vigilance and wiping out all traces of the virus -- even as the pressure to protect jobs, mental health and economic growth forced other so-called Covid Zero countries from Singapore to Australia to open up.
The sacrifices made by residents of Ruili have done little to keep the virus at bay, as successive waves of Covid hit one after another since March.