"Faced with its worst Covid-19 outbreak yet, China has been enforcing an expanding number of mass quarantines, strict lockdowns and border controls. The measures may yet work, but official data released on Monday show they are exacting a _...Read More_

"A lawyer flew home to China hoping to see his family for the first time since the pandemic began. Instead, he was trapped in three months of quarantine."

"After two years of largely containing coronavirus outbreaks, China’s “Covid zero” policies are being tested by the highly transmissible variant."

>"TOKYO -- Japan is considering ending quarantine and self-isolation requirements next month for fully vaccinated and boosted travelers arriving from co"

"The country has instituted a wide range of high-tech controls on society as part of a mostly successful effort to stop the virus. The consequences may endure."

>"The Omicron coronavirus variant is moving much faster than researchers can, worsening a longstanding problem: The agency must make tough decisions with scant data."

>"Without hard rules about employees who test positive, owners and workers are weighing safety against finances, and not always agreeing on the answer."

>"Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain apologized in Parliament for attending a garden party at Downing Street in 2020 while the country was under a strict coronavirus lockdown. Mr. Johnson had not previously admitted to being at the _...Read More_

China’s “zero Covid” policy has a dedicated following: the millions of people who work diligently toward that goal, no matter the human costs.

"Xi’an, a city of 13 million people, has been on lockdown since Dec. 22, the longest in the country since the early days of the outbreak in Wuhan."

>"El cansancio por la pandemia aumenta en el continente durante las fiestas decembrinas. Igual que la resignación porque el virus sea endémico."

>"On the eve of the biggest holidays in Europe, exhaustion with the pandemic is rising. So is resignation that the virus is endemic."

South Africa gave the world an early warning. Decisive action on containment and surveillance could help us control it.

>"The discovery could complicate efforts to reopen the border between the territory and the Chinese mainland."

[https://nyti.ms/30TBKc9](https://nyti.ms/30TBKc9) >"A series of restrictions, including a lockdown in Austria, is expected to put a brake on economic growth."