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Despite the economic and social costs, China remains committed to the zero-case strategy in the fight against the covid-19 pandemic.
China is building hundreds of thousands of permanent Covid-19 testing centers and expanding quarantine facilities in many of its largest cities, as part of a ‘zero case’ policy.
In Shanghai’s Minhang district, new lockdown measures and mass testing were announced yesterday, covering more than two million people.
The directive was issued a week after the Chinese government declared the city’s victory over the virus, after two weeks of a highly restrictive lockdown.
Confinement measures, in whole or in part, in dozens of cities have put the country on the brink of recession for the second time in three decades.
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