China is the last major economy welded to a zero-Covid strategy—putting firms and workers at risk of snap lockdowns, freezing activity in the services sector and tangling supply chains crucial for factories to sell their goods
People queue to be tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a swab collection site in Beijing on June 13, 2022. Beijing on June 13 launched mass testing in its most populous district and delayed most school reopenings, as residents' precarious return to normal life is threatened by a rapidly expanding outbreak. Image: Noel Celis / AFP