More Nations Bend to the Economic Cost of Covid Zero-Tolerance
One by one, countries that sought to stamp out Covid-19's spread with aggressive lockdowns are giving up zero-tolerance policies and learning to live with the virus. The most notable exception is China, which has decided to cling to the strategy. This week, the new attitude among many nations toward the coronavirus is getting a major test in Singapore, host of Bloomberg's New Economy Forum. The city-state recently experienced its biggest flare-up of the pandemic.
In a special episode, Stephanie Flanders discusses Singapore's determination to move forward with the annual meeting of political…
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