Zero-Covid is failing everywhere
It must be said that the failure of the “zero-Covid” strategy is not just an Australian fact. Contagion rates have also increased in the other countries considered – until a month ago – the flagship of the pandemic containment.
New Zealand and Vietnam, for example, are facing peaks in infections due, once again, to the speed of the Delta variant. And in both cases very strict lockdowns were imposed. Only one bulwark remains: China. Despite Delta, the Country of the Dragon seems to have stemmed the new outbreaks by bringing local cases close to zero in a few weeks. Even in China, however, the discussion on the “zero-Covid” strategy is flaring up.
One of the country’s most influential scientists, Zeng Guang, recently explained in an interview with a Chinese newspaper that this approach cannot last forever, and that China “cannot isolate itself from the world as it prepares to host the Olympic Games. winter of 2022 “.
A few days later, Guang himself partially retracted these claims, explaining that he was misunderstood. But the impression is that China too, sooner or later, will have to deal with the new balances imposed by a virus that could become endemic.