Code red on China’s tech line against Covid-19

It all came crashing down in Xian on Tuesday.As the city of more than 13 million people entered its 13th day of lockdown to try to contain the worst outbreak of the coronavirus in China since the eruption in Wuhan two years ago, the city’s health code app collapsed under the strain.The app is a central element of the country’s zero-Covid approach to the pandemic and is used for a range of functions, from contact tracing to vaccination records and swab test results.The app generates a health…

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