'Beijing’s healthcare system was long thought to be among the best prepared in the country to deal with a surge of Covid infections. But the central government’s decision this month to abruptly abandon its draconian zero-Covid policy, which had held off the disease for nearly three years through mass testing and quarantines, has sparked one of the country’s biggest coronavirus outbreaks.'
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