The covid-19 pandemic’s third yr noticed international locations undertake new approaches

Because the world confronted the third yr of the coronavirus pandemic, Iceland started 2022 by shifting in direction of “herd immunity” whereas China ended the yr easing its zero covid strategy

By New Scientist employees

With vaccinations reducing covid-19 dying charges, many international locations selected to finish nearly all different measures to regulate the unfold of the coronavirus in 2022 – however the virus remains to be inflicting waves of sickness worldwide.

Early within the yr, some nations started to desert mitigation measures. In direction of the tip of February, Iceland’s technique shifted from zero covid to “herd immunity”, which it hoped to realize by permitting SARS-CoV-2 to unfold whereas shielding susceptible individuals. Days later, Iceland’s day by day new …