The world is almost back to pre-covid activity levels

The world is almost back to pre-covid activity levels
Economic activity is back, but the pandemic has changed where activity occurs. (Image: Getty)
The Economist
In much of the world, the pandemic may be as over as it ever will be.Vaccinations, including boosters, and efforts to halt new variants or winter waves will probably continue.But China remains the only major exception to accepting sars-cov-2 as endemic. On Sept 1 it locked down Chengdu, a city of 21 million. In other countries, governments are no longer making radical new interventions in how people live to contain this virus.But if the new endemic normal is here, how does it compare with the world before the pandemic? The evidence so...

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