Kumar, I had written above about the situation in China. Just saw an article in BBC that seems to quite closely corroborate (with some details) what I was guessing above. It is a good read. Zero Covid holds danger for China's Xi (BBC)Kumar wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 8:19 am Does china know something about covid that rest of the world does not know? It just seems like china is adopting a zero Covid policy against every logic possible?... Is it possible that it is an engineered lab escape and they know something about it that makes them hesitant to relax their zero covid policy... Their zero covid policy is not defendable by any common sense logic.
Meanwhile, another bastion of zero-Covid strategy fell recently. Taiwan. They had a huge wave recently that went up to even 90K per day since April,that has now waned. But it left the country on par with the rest of the world with some 1/6th of the population getting Covid in the end (unofficially, 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 has got Covid in most countries; regardless of whatever the official reported numbers are). It was unimaginable with the tight testing and quarantining regime that Taiwan followed for 2 years that they would get a wave. But to be fair, the countries that delayed their big waves by 1 or 1.5 years did avoid a lot of deaths - due to vaccinations and general preparedness of doctors/hospitals. So Zero-Covid was a strategy that helped in the countries where it was feasible. But its time has come and gone.
