From Beijing to Shanghai, Shenzhen to Tianjin, cities are now home to an archipelago of temporary testing kiosks, while authorities order hundreds of millions of people to get swabbed every two or three days
In this file photo taken on February 14, 2020, a worker carts a bin loaded with medical waste at the Youan Hospital in Beijing. Hazmat-suited workers poke plastic swabs down millions of throats in China each day, leaving bins bursting with medical waste that has become the environmental and economic levy of a zero-Covid strategy. Image: Greg Baker / AFP