How COVID Crept Into This ‘Zero Policy’ Country

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An airtight “COVID Zero” strategy was not enough to fend off an overwhelming surge of the Omicron variant.

Published Feb. 28 2022 4:51AM EST

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For more than two years, Hong Kong managed to keep out the novel coronavirus. Thanks to China’s extremely strict limits on crowds and travel—the so-called “COVID Zero” approach to the pandemic—daily new cases in the city of 7.5

David Axe

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How COVID Crept Into This ‘Zero Policy’ Country

An airtight “COVID Zero” strategy was not enough to fend off an overwhelming surge of the Omicron variant.

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David Axe