Xi Jinping led a meeting stressing that China should stick to its zero-Covid policy and warned of the economic consequences of not doing so, state media said.
that said shifting to the"coexistence" strategy of other countries would likely result in hundreds of thousands of daily cases and devastate the national medical system.
"People criticize the policy, which I think is the wrong approach," he said."If the implementation of the zero-Covid policy can be improved, everybody profits from it."Earlier this week, Beijing city reduced the quarantine period for international travelers coming to the city by four days. For Wednesday, the National Health Commission reported 356 new cases with symptoms, mostly in Shanghai, followed by Beijing with 55 cases. In the United States, as at April 27, the seven-day moving average of new cases was 53,133 — up 25.2% from the prior week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.But it remains unclear how soon factories, supply chains and other business can return to normal.
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