The Guardian:

Scores of Chinese cities – from the financial hub Shanghai to the capital, Beijing – have been under some form of lockdown since earlier this year. Shanghai is in its sixth week of lockdown, with the authorities’ heavy-handed enforcement of the policy causing anguish and anger.

Experts say China is in a dilemma over how to handle Covid. On Tuesday, new modelling by scientists in China and the US showed that the country risks more than 1.5 million Covid deaths if it drops its current policy without any safeguards, such as ramping up vaccination and access to treatments.

生词短语:

hub

中心

heavy-handed

手段强硬的

enforcement

执行; 实施

anguish

痛苦; 苦恼

dilemma

困境

ramp up

上升; 增加