Action on Covid-19
China’s reported seven-day-rolling-average Covid case count (which may be much less than the real count) is now at an all-time peak, surpassed only by a spike on 16 April. A surge in Guangzhou has brought ultra-lockdowns only in areas of the city, not a city-wide ultra-lockdown as in Shanghai earlier. But the government has still not moved to the vaccination drive for elderly people, with more effective vaccines, and the expansion of healthcare, necessary to move away from its hopeless drive for “zero Covid”. Even in the rest of the world, where Covid rates are not (or not yet) showing the...