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Why China is still obsessed with disinfecting everything

10 mins | May 30, 2022
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Cleaning is still the rage. Most public health bodies dealing with COVID have long since moved on from the idea of surface transmission. So why is China still obsessed with disinfection? Zeyi Yang explores how the nation’s pandemic habit has become a political narrative almost impossible to push back against.

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