The Chinese government has been in a state of anxiety due to the Corona virus activity in recent period and China has reaffirmed its firm commitment to its longstanding policy regarding the absence of the Covid virus in the country and the fight against its spread with strict rules and laws of closure and periodic monitoring of citizens, according to images from the Reuters news agency website.
Chinese health officials have vowed to continue the country’s zero-tolerance approach aimed at eliminating COVID cases as soon as they arise. The ongoing campaign has kept the number of infections and deaths down at a large economic and social cost, as rapidly spreading new variants make containment of the virus nearly impossible.
“Practice has proved that our epidemic prevention and control policy and a number of strategic measures are absolutely correct, the most economical and effective,” said Hu Xiang, a disease control official, when asked whether China would adjust its COVID-19 policies. term.
The commitment to Zero-Covid has also been a huge disappointment for the Chinese public, many of whom are increasingly fed up with constant mass testing, centralized quarantines and strict lockdowns, which sometimes last for months on end.
Frustration and public discontent have only grown in recent weeks, after Supreme Leader Xi Jinping began his third term in power against the rules with vocal support for the no-Covid policy.
