Senior citizens are dying at an unprecedented pace after President Xi Jinping's administration abandoned the zero-COVID policy. (Nikkei montage/Reuters)

Analysis: China's elderly pay ultimate price for COVID missteps

Senior citizens die at unprecedented pace, leaving families devastated

KATSUJI NAKAZAWA, Nikkei senior staff writer

January 12, 2023 04:01 JST

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.