• China’s zero-COVID strategy aims at not allowing a single infection to happen in the country, aiming at an infection-free population over a prolonged period, achieved through two actions.
  • Continuing with the strategy for a longer time has only exposed the stupefying silence of forceful extreme measures on the individual’s mental health and human rights.
  • Abandoning the zero-COVID strategy without a proper exit plan will undeniably lead to several massive waves of infection with multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants in China.