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Zero Covid: China silences the critics
Despite the effectiveness of China’s tactics in fighting Covid-19, Western outlets still find ways to decry it as ‘authoritarian’ and ‘unsustainable’ — instead they should be saluting its remarkable success, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
Medical workers scan codes on people's smartphones at a mass coronavirus testing site in Beijing
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France Insoumise MP JEROME LEGAVRE speaks to Christophe Domec on building the Europe-wide peace movement that came together in the International Conference Against War last weekend
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
IT’S coming up to a year since the last death from Covid in China. Since January 26 2021, China’s Covid death count has been stuck on 4,636.
The vast majority — 99.9 per cent — of these deaths took place during the first three months of the pandemic and the most were in Hubei, the province in which the outbreak was first detected.
In the southern province of Guangdong, population 125 million, there have been just eight deaths from Covid.
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