Commentary: China's Zero-COVID Approach Depends on Shanghai's Outbreak Control

Frontiers in Public Health

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Ali Cheshmehzangi¹  Tong Zou²  Zhaohui Su³ 

[1] Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability ,(NERPS), Hiroshima University;Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham Ningbo China;Center on Smart and Connected Health Technologies, Mays Cancer Center, School of Nursing, UT Health San Antonio;School of Public Health, Southeast University

关键词: zero-COVID;    Shanghai;    COVID-19;    pandemic;    outbreak control;    pandemic impact;    pandemic control;    global impact;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2022.912992

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

More than any other time before, China's zero-COVID approach depends on the success or failure of one city's outbreak control. The ongoing resurgent outbreak in China's main megacity, Shanghai, is marked as a game-changing situation. The current situation in Shanghai started around mid-March 2022, is even more severe than what happened in Wuhan in the early days of the pandemic. The severity of the situation is not based on the number of death cases or the sudden early shocks of the disease spread. It is more about the political pressure and growing concerns about failing what has been a relatively successful approach in controlling the pandemic to date, i.e., the zero-COVID approach or the zero-tolerance concept that China and a few other countries adopted.

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