Omicron and Olympics could be on a collision course with China’s zero-Covid strategy

Perhaps it was naive to expect that China’s rigid approach to fighting Covid-19 — complete with locking down millions of people and using invasive surveillance to keep tabs on citizens — would not eventually cause problems for the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics amid an ongoing global pandemic.

Perhaps it was naive to expect that China’s rigid approach to fighting Covid-19 — complete with locking down millions of people and using invasive surveillance to keep tabs on citizens — would not eventually cause problems for the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics amid an ongoing global pandemic.