China's abrupt end last month to the zero-COVID policy that the government had doggedly stuck to for three years and lauded as the reason it had thus far avoided the mass infections and death tolls seen overseas caught most by surprise.
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Shelves in pharmacies across China quickly emptied after people scrambled to stock up on medicines.
China's abrupt end last month to the zero-COVID policy that the government had doggedly stuck to for three years and lauded as the reason it had thus far avoided the mass infections and death tolls seen overseas caught most by surprise.