Beijing’s Zero-COVID Crackdown Not Likely to Work: White House COVID-19 Coordinator
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2022 3:48 pm
The harsh treatment of Chinese citizens in the name of extinguishing COVID-19 is not likely to succeed, the coordinator of the White House’s COVID-19 team said. “We don’t think that a zero-COVID strategy, what China is pursuing, is one that is likely to work,” Dr. Ashish Jha, who just joined the administration, said on “Fox News Sunday.” Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities have been imposing lockdowns in various cities, including Shanghai, in recent weeks in the name of combating COVID-19. That’s left many without food and medicine, among other consequences. “I think it’s very difficult at this point, with a highly contagious variant, to be able to curtail this through lockdowns alone,” Jha said. ...
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