China is defending its Zero-Covid strategy as the U.S. asks Americans to reconsider travel to China. Bloomberg News China’s largest Covid-19 outbreak in two years continues to spread despite an extended lockdown of Shanghai’s 25 million people, with the restrictions weighing on a fragile economy and straining global supply chains. There were 26,087 new daily infections reported in the Chinese financial hub Sunday, an all-time high. Residents have been locked down for weeks now, with frustration building among the population as they struggle to get access to food and medical care . Elsewhere, the southern metropolis of Guangzhou is implementing a series of restrictions after local authorities warned the 20 cases they found last week could be the tip of the iceberg. The city is a trading hub and infections and similar containment measures across China are an increasing drag on the world’s second-largest economy, with consequences for […]