CONTINUOUS RESTRICTIONS

Nearly three years into the pandemic, China has stuck with enforcing mobility curbs that many countries dropped months (if not years) ago. A look data from the Oxford

Covid-19 Government

Response Tracker, which records the strictness of government policies to contain the pandemic, highlights the prolonged nature of Chinese curbs.

This shows that China currently has curbs of 62.9 on a scale of 0 to 100 (100 being the strictest). For context, the United States had similarly strict curbs more than a year and a half ago in March 2021. Covid-19: Stringency Index