As the omicron variant spreads, China feels the vindication of its ‘zero covid’ strategy

To be effective, China’s mass shutdowns, swab tests and contact tracing claim public appeal but “comparative difficulty among Western countries in implementing implementation of quarantine policies, a major obstacle to epidemic prevention and control, is basically due to the difference in the governance system,” said Zhou Xinfa, the paper’s author, a scholar at the Academy of Sciences. Chinese Social Studies, writing.