China’s Covid Zero Scars Leave Citizens Fearful of Curbs
- Digital health codes remain on government apps causing anxiety
- Scattered reports show sporadic virus testing still in place
Workers in protective gear at a neighborhood placed under lockdown due to Covid-19 in Beijing in November 2022.
Source: Bloomberg
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One year after President Xi Jinping abandoned his Covid Zero strategy, vestiges of China’s vast anti-epidemic architecture are exposing the underlying scars of a regime that caused rare social unrest.
Reports some provinces haven’t deleted the digital health codes that captured troves of data during the pandemic caused alarm in recent weeks. “Who still wants to go back to the dark period?” one user wrote on Weibo, after learning the technology was still on a government app in southern Guangdong province.