The return of COVID-19 to the Chinese city of Wuhan is a depressing reminder of the persistence of a pandemic that has now come full circle.
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The return of COVID-19 to the central Chinese city of Wuhan this week is a depressing reminder of the pandemic’s persistence.
Few people in Australia had heard of Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, until January last year when a mysterious respiratory illness, believed at the time to have originated from a local wet market, started infecting hundreds.
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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/world/asia/why-china-cannot-afford-to-drop-its-zero-case-virus-strategy-20210804-p58fmz
