China tries to ‘bury the memory’ and trauma of zero-COVID era

Last month's sudden spread of influenza-like infections among children in China raised alarm [File: Jade Gao/AFP]

When Evelyn Ma’s two-year-old daughter had a persistently high fever and a bad cough earlier this month, she and her husband began to worry.

The couple decided to take their daughter to a nearby children’s hospital in the city of Jinan.