In Beijing, the Covid rebels let off steam

Toddlers wading in a canal, mahjong players who don’t care about distances and young people who find themselves in hiding to drink a beer: facing the zero Covid vice, Pekingese…

The Chinese capital has been on the edge since the beginning of May in the face of an epidemic outbreak which exceeds 1,600 cases of contamination – a high figure for China which applies a strict zero Covid policy.

Although the outbreak has officially caused no deaths in the city of 22 million inhabitants, schools, restaurants, non-essential businesses and several parks are closed.

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