China is the last major economy welded to a zero-Covid strategy—putting firms and workers at risk of snap lockdowns, freezing activity in the services sector and tangling supply chains crucial for factories to sell their goods
Beijing, China: Fiona Shi lost her job twice during the pandemic—first, in 2020 when Covid ravaged the travel industry, and then this year as China's strict virus controls hammered businesses in the world's number two economy.