How much longer can China keep up its zero-Covid strategy?

As Beijing pursues its solitary path, observers are asking whether the policy is about protecting public health – or social orderCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDesperate residents in China’s western Xi’an city are running out of food after they were barred from grocery shopping in a fierce lockdown. In the southern province of Guangxi, people who broke Covid laws were recently publicly shamed by being paraded through the streets in Hazmat suit