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The Jab: Can Asia’s covid havens re-open?

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A “zero-covid” strategy has kept cases to a minimum in a handful of Asia-Pacific countries. How can they use vaccines to end their isolation?


Professor Gabriel Leung of the University of Hong Kong says “zero-covid” countries have become victims of their own success, Charlie McCann explains South-East Asia’s worrying new wave, and Nell Whitehead reports from Australia.


Alok Jha and Natasha Loder are joined by Edward Carr, The Economist’s deputy editor.


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