Top China Experts Insist No End to Covid Zero as Deaths Grow
- Officials signal strict measures needed to ensure stability
- Shanghai lays out business restart plan to ease supply crunch
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China’s top health officials indicated there’s no end in sight to the country’s increasingly costly Covid Zero approach, even as deaths inch up and the world’s second-largest economy becomes snarled in lockdowns, quarantine and testing rules.
As resistance against the strategy causing visceral human suffering in Shanghai grows, some of China’s leading scientific advisers doubled down, arguing that only continued battle against the virus could safeguard the country’s long-term economic development.