Whilst the rest of the world increasingly sees the Coronavirus pandemic as a distant memory, China still insists on a zero-COVID policy, locking down whole cites whenever a few cases are found.
This has been exacerbated recently by the upcoming National Congress Meeting. Held every five years in Beijing, this is where the Communist Party tells everyone how well it is doing, and COVID is potentially a bit of a black mark! So the authorities are cracking down...
Kunming currently has 18 cases of COVID, so the whole population (8½m) have been told to have tests every day or two if they want to get into supermarkets, buses, subway, schools, Universities etc. JD's school tests the students (and parents) twice-weekly. There are free testing centres everywhere (including this one outside our neighbourhood) but long queues to use them. When will it ever end?
Kunming currently has 18 cases of COVID, so the whole population (8½m) have been told to have tests every day or two if they want to get into supermarkets, buses, subway, schools, Universities etc. JD's school tests the students (and parents) twice-weekly. There are free testing centres everywhere (including this one outside our neighbourhood) but long queues to use them. When will it ever end?
