China’s economy grew at one of its slowest rates in decades last year as repeated Covid-19 lockdowns hammered households and businesses.

Shanghai residents queued in sweltering heat for compulsory Covid-19 mass testing on July 14, 2022. New outbreaks fuelled anxiety in the Chinese metropolis city still recovering from a two-month lockdown that was lifted only a few weeks ago.

A new warning says the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine mean the global economy might be on the brink of high prices and low economic growth.

Chinese authorities are putting packages through an extensive cleansing process as a part of the country’s zero-Covid regime.