Zhang Wenhong remains one of the Chinese public's most trusted figures and is key to Beijing's public assurances as the country reopens.
from the zero-COVID policy, said criticism of Zhang's advice"cost us one year." Instead of preparing China's public and its health care system for a managed reopening, the government exhausted valuable resources in 2022 trying to contain the virus until it couldn't do so, the article said.no resultsThe text's popularity seemed to stem from the fact that the Chinese leadership, which had successfully managed the pandemic for two years, refused to consider alternatives.
A passenger wearing PPE amid the pandemic arrives at Hankou Railway Station on December 10, 2022, in Wuhan, Hubei. China is easing its restrictions.to assure the public that COVID infections are manageable without a run on the hospitals, just weeks after insisting Xi's zero-COVID policy was the only way to prevent mass fatalities like those in the West.
Over the weekend, China's social media websites carried a video of Zhang at a press conference in Shanghai, where he predicted the city's
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