Why is China still imposing Covid lockdowns?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Although the policy has largely prevented mass hospitalisations, the strict pandemic restrictions face increasing economic and societal pressure, with falling productivity, growing unemployment, and what some observers liken to mass surveillance of its population.
On the Sky News Daily with Sally Lockwood, our Asia correspondent Helen-Ann Smith details the strict zero-covid policy in China, and Cindy Yu, host of the Chinese Whispers podcast explains the reasoning behind the country’s rules.
Producers: Emma Rae Woodhouse, Soila Apparicio, Rosie Gillott
Interviews Producer: Alys Bowen
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 0:59.9 | The world has largely moved on from COVID, apart from in China, |
| 1:03.9 | where towns and cities can still be locked down overnight. |
| 1:07.6 | This happened at the Shanghai Disney Resort recently |
| 1:10.0 | after one visitor tested positive for |
| 1:12.4 | COVID causing mass panic. Visitors were locked in the resort for hours and only released after |
| 1:22.1 | they've tested negative for the virus. It's all part of China's strict zero-tolerance policy to COVID, which came under |
| 1:29.8 | the spotlight again earlier this year in Shanghai. People here started protesting after they were |
| 1:39.2 | told to leave their homes so the building could be used as a COVID isolation facility. |
| 1:46.0 | This zero-tolerance policy is present in almost every aspect of daily life in China. |
| 1:52.5 | It is basically impossible to go to any public place, any restaurant, any bar, any shop, |
| 1:57.6 | without what's called a green coat. |
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