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France 24
France 24
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Cyrielle CABOT

‘Like a dystopia’: French expats on China’s ‘zero Covid’ and its shocking reversal

A woman wearing a face mask amid the Covid-19 pandemic walks along a street in Beijing on December 11, 2022. © Noel Celis, AFP

The Chinese Communist Party’s reversal of the draconian “zero Covid” policy in December sparked an unprecedented epidemic across the country. But while the surging cases caused them a lot of worry, the end of brutal lockdowns was ultimately a big relief for the French expats FRANCE 24 spoke to. 

Three years after Covid-19 first emerged from the central city of Wuhan, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has finally put an end to the stringent “zero Covid” policy, after tight lockdowns prompted unprecedented protests.  

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