Days of lockdown protests in some Chinese cities have highlighted how unpopular China's 'dynamic zero COVID' policy has become. But with COVID outbreaks growing, analysts say it leaves Xi Jinping with “two bad options.'
But experts say the country is ill-prepared to face the consequences of dropping those policies altogether and triggering a likely tsunami of COVID-19 cases. China is already grappling with a record outbreak. On Tuesday, it reported around 40,000 new cases.After first detecting the new coronavirus in 2019, China imposed tight travel restrictions, mandatory mass testing, broad surveillance, long forced quarantines and sudden lockdowns in different cities.
But the emergence of the omicron variant a year ago caught the party flat-footed, and it's had a hard time pivoting. A never-ending string of lockdowns and travel restrictions have hurt the economy and eroded public goodwill.China's hospital bed count is a big headache Medical staff work at the intensive care unit of the southern branch of Renji Hospital in Shanghai, China, April 24.intensive care beds
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