Vaccine hesitancy puts Asia’s ‘zero-Covid’ economies like Hong Kong, Australia in herd immunity stalemate

As Covid-19 patients fill hospitals to the brim in India, the Philippines and Malaysia, the Asia-Pacific’s “zero-Covid” economies are facing an ironic conundrum: how do you convince people to get vaccinated for a virus that, as far as they are concerned, may as well not exist?For many Asia-Pacific economies that practically eliminated the virus with border closures and sporadic lockdowns, herd immunity, long held out as the great hope for returning to normality, is looking increasingly out of…

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