Xi’s Predicament Deepens as Covid Cases Surge
A health worker pushes a patient at a hospital in Beijing on Wednesday.
Source: Bloomberg
China’s pandemic strategy will “stand the test of history," according to state media, which is busily insisting President Xi Jinping’s policies have been right all along.
In reality, the chaotic departure from Covid Zero has unleashed a wave of infections, overwhelmed Beijing’s hospitals and left factories hoarding medicine as they prepare for outbreaks among workers.