China is the last major economy glued to a zero-Covid policy and enforces some of the most stringent virus controls anywhere in the world.
Before they were expunged from the internet, comments had questioned zero-Covid, with one saying"even the WHO's Tedros has now changed his stance".Virus controls are causing mounting anger and frustration, especially in Shanghai where residents have raged against seemingly endless lockdowns, spartan quarantine facilities and heavy-handed enforcement.
Abandoning zero-Covid and allowing Omicron to rip across the country could result in 1.6 million deaths, according to a paper published Tuesday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature by researchers at Shanghai's Fudan University. It is necessary to"create the conditions for the victorious convening of the 20th Party Congress", she said, according to state news agency Xinhua.
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