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China's Zero-Covid Trap

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Stephen McDonell is in China to meet people struggling due to its "zero-covid" policy.

Stephen McDonell travels across China and meets people struggling to stay afloat with their country showing no signs of abandoning its "zero-covid" policy.

In recent weeks, tens of millions of people in China have again been confined to their homes in coronavirus lockdowns. This is not without political risk, especially in the run up to the twice a decade Communist Party Congress. BBC China Correspondent Stephen McDonell travels across the country and meets people struggling to stay afloat with their country showing no signs of abandoning its "zero-covid" policy.

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