BEIJING - The Covid-zero policy is the most"economic and effective" for China and the country is capable of achieving its goal of stamping out infection, said President Xi Jinping on a visit to Wuhan, the city where the virus was first detected in late 2019.
The remarks, reported by state media Xinhua, made clear that the world's No. 2 economy does not plan to back away from an approach of lockdowns and mass testing that has isolated it from a world living with the virus. Efforts to stamp out the pathogen as it has become increasingly infectious has extracted a tremendous social and economic cost, but China has defied critics that said elimination was not possible as its biggest cities of Beijing and Shanghai
straits_times And it would REALLY be effective if the authorized Pfizer and Moderna.
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