{"id":21650,"date":"2022-08-25T00:58:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T04:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=21650"},"modified":"2022-08-25T00:58:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T04:58:38","slug":"covid-lockdowns-in-china-blocked-by-a-qr-code-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=21650","title":{"rendered":"Covid Lockdowns in China: Blocked by a QR Code &#8211; Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s be clear.\u00a0Since the original Wuhan outbreak, China has indeed managed to keep just about every coronavirus cluster in the country\u00a0from turning into a nationwide health-care crisis. Beijing argues, not without merit, that the existing infrastructure cannot handle a pandemic of millions. And a digital health-monitoring system based on QR codes has played a big role: local governments work with popular apps such as WeChat and Ant\u2019s\u00a0Alipay to control access to everything from supermarkets to the subway.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2022-08-23\/covid-lockdowns-in-china-blocked-by-a-qr-code\">Covid Lockdowns in China: Blocked by a QR Code &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Some dystopian stuff here&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Let\u2019s be clear.\u00a0Since the original Wuhan outbreak, China has indeed managed to keep just about every coronavirus cluster in the country\u00a0from turning into a nationwide health-care crisis. Beijing argues, not without merit, that the existing infrastructure cannot handle a pandemic of millions. And a digital health-monitoring system based on QR codes has played a big role: local governments work with popular apps such as WeChat and Ant\u2019s\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/global.alipay.com\/platform\/site\/ihome\" target=\"_blank\">Alipay<\/a>\u00a0to control access to everything from supermarkets to the subway.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s be clear.\u00a0Since the original Wuhan outbreak, China has indeed managed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[150,29],"class_list":["post-21650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-china","tag-social","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}