Delta putting zero-COVID approach under strain

China’s ability to quash COVID flare-ups is being tested again:  the Delta variant outbreak that was identified in Nanjing last week has already spread further within China than any since the first that emerged from Wuhan. But the bigger challenge it poses is to China’s long-term strategy of keeping COVID infections as close to zero as possible.

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