Beijing can ill-afford restrictions as it prepares to host the winter Olympic Games, beginning on February 4th
cases are at three times their previous peak in January 2021, hospitals are as busy as they have ever been and deaths have risen by 40% in two weeks to 1,800 per day. Meanwhile China has recorded just one death from covid in the past 12 months and fewer than 17,000 cases.A daily newsletter with the best of our journalismXi Jinping, China’s president, hails its record on covid as proof of the superiority of the one-party system.
Our overall index stands at 75 points, up from a nadir of 35 points in April 2020. China scores 66 points, placing it 34th in our table, which is topped by Egypt and Pakistan—the only two countries where normalcy is higher than 100, suggesting that activity is above pre-pandemic levels. Normalcy is lowest in the Netherlands, which shut bars, restaurants and many shops in December to reduce infections.
Over the past four weeks normalcy has declined in 42 of the countries we track as they reel from the spread of Omicron. But compared with January last year, when few people were vaccinated, it has improved in 47 of the 50 countries, by an average of 22 points. Vaccines have given governments room to loosen restrictions.
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