WHO chief warns China's zero-Covid policy not 'sustainable'
CNN
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed rare disagreement with China's zero-Covid strategy, saying it is unsustainable just days after Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed to double down on the policy.
"When we talk about the zero-Covid strategy, we don't think that it is sustainable, considering the behavior of the virus now and what we anticipate in the future," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a media briefing Tuesday, citing the increased transmissibility of Omicron.
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