In China, newly confirmed cases of coronavirus infection are falling
Yet many Chinese are still enduring tight quarantine
CHINESE OFFICIALS call it “waging war on two fronts”. One involves battling the coronavirus that has infected more than 74,000 people in China and killed about 2,100 since it was discovered in the central city of Wuhan in December. The other is a struggle to revive the economy. The daily number of newly diagnosed infections has mostly fallen since February 13th. But a month after imposing the most extensive quarantine measures ever enforced during an epidemic, most local governments are hesitant to ease up.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Casualties of war”
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