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Covid-19: Why China is sticking to “zero tolerance” public health measures

Andrew Silver

2021BMJ22 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

China’s covid strategy has been to identify and interrupt community transmission through swift containment measures, sometimes for whole cities. And, despite already vaccinating over 75% of the population, it seems to be sticking to this approach. <b>Andrew Silver</b> asks why

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