Zero Covid Strategy

Explained: The challenges China will face in lifting COVID restrictions

Chinese authorities are now moving to ease restrictions. However, the transition out of zero COVID has been painful for any country that’s done it. And China will face some unique challenges in making this shift

China lifts weeks-long COVID-19 lockdown in southwest megacity Chengdu

China is the last major economy welded to a zero-COVID strategy and officials are under pressure to curb virus flare-ups swiftly ahead of a key political meeting in mid-October

China's COVID-19 crisis and dilemma facing its leaders, by experts who have monitored it since the Wuhan outbreak

One of China’s largest cities, Shanghai, has been paralysed for the past month, with many of its residents hemmed in by hastily erected metal fences. The capital, Beijing, is now striving to avoid a similar fate

WHO says China's zero-COVID-19 strategy to defeat pandemic 'unsustainable'

China has imposed draconian measures, trapping most of Shanghai's 25 million people at home for weeks as the country combats its worst outbreak since the pandemic began

Shanghai officials promise to ease anti-COVID-19 controls amid food worries

Shanghai leaders are scrambling to ease the impact of a 'zero-COVID' strategy that shut down most businesses starting 28 March