Covid
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World
A Key Piece of New York City’s Covid Response Is Closing as Cases Rise
The city’s Pandemic Response Lab, which provided mass testing, is shutting down due in part to the prevalence of at-home…
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News
China’s Struggle With Covid Is Just Beginning
China’s leaders are in a dangerous dilemma. Their obsession with eliminating the coronavirus has spared the country the pandemic death…
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A Powerful Display of Dissent in China
It is too early to tell whether the remarkable protests across China against the government’s strict “dynamic zero Covid” policy…
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As Officials Ease Covid Restrictions, China Faces New Pandemic Risks
Huge swaths of the nation’s elderly remain vulnerable, scientists say, and a surge in deaths and hospitalizations may be inevitable.
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News
China Has an Extraordinary Covid-19 Dilemma
More than one in six people on the planet live in China. That’s 1.4 billion people who have spent the…
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World
After Mass Protests, China Appears to Back Away From Harsh Covid Rules
Several cities announced the easing of lockdown regulations and testing requirements after the country’s biggest demonstrations in decades.
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Xi Broke the Social Contract That Helped China Prosper
The protests in China against the government’s draconian Covid controls have been compared to those in 1989, when students demonstrated…
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Banana Peels for Xi Jinping
There’s a Soviet joke that has long circulated in China, about a man who is arrested for protesting in Moscow’s…
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News
The Communist Party Is Losing China’s People
BEIJING — The scenes in China in recent days have been electrifying. Last weekend, in several cities across the country,…
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World
Taking Brunt of Lockdown, Migrant Workers Fuel China’s Latest Protests
Although security forces have reasserted control in many cities, poor workers could help maintain the pushback against Beijing’s strict Covid…