Chinese State Media Defend Covid Zero, Warn Against ‘Lying Flat’
- State media warns against relying on herd immunity for control
- Xi’s approach credited as bringing certainty to world economy
China reported 1,634 local infections for Wednesday, down from a peak of 3,400 a week ago and the fourth straight day of declines.
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China’s state media defended the country’s increasingly costly zero tolerance approach to Covid-19, saying inactivity from “lying flat” would be disastrous, as outbreaks in its tourism hotspots abate.
The dynamic Covid Zero method created a safe and stable environment for China’s development and brings greater certainty to the world economy, the State Council-affiliated newspaper Economic Daily said in a column on Thursday. The recent damage to the country’s growth stems from Covid itself, not measures to contain it, the paper said.