From Breakingviews - China Covid ills go from bad to chronically worse
A man pushes a woman in wheelchair past a poster with a graphic of medical workers at a nucleic acid testing booth for the coronavirus disease , in Beijing, China October 27, 2022. REUTERS/Tingshu Wangunderscore a rising fear among people that President Xi Jinping’s stringent pandemic restrictions may be here to stay. Unfortunately, two squandered years to vaccinate vulnerable groups and bolster hospital resources validate those anxieties.
Any end to the near-daily mandatory Covid tests and strict quarantine rules will be bumpy due to a huge unvaccinated population. As of November, about 27 million citizens aged 60 and above have not been jabbed against Covid, Breakingviews calculated from official data, and another 36 million elderly people have yet to receive their second dose. One Mayby Chinese researchers projected an uncontrolled Omicron spread would result in a death rate of 1.
Building and maintaining quarantine facilities will need financing too: in one case, a city in the eastern Shandong provincea bond issuance dedicated to the cause, predicting China’s Covid outbreaks will last for at least another five years, per Chinese media.
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