China's Zero-Covid Strategy Unsustainable: WHO
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WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan said it was time to hit the reset button, saying any measures to combat the Covid-19 pandemic should show "due respect to individual and human rights".
China's zero-Covid strategy to defeat the pandemic is not sustainable, the World Health Organization's chief said Tuesday, adding that the WHO had told Beijing so.
Draconian measures have trapped most of Shanghai's 25 million people at home for weeks as China combats the country's worst outbreak since the pandemic began.
Yet the Shanghai lockdown has intensified, causing outrage and rare protest in the last major economy still glued to a zero-Covid policy.
"When we talk about the zero-Covid strategy, we don't think that it's sustainable, considering the behaviour of the virus now and what we anticipate in the future," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference.
