Chinese doctors are questioning the tracking policy of Beijing’s Covid contact


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[Asia stocks, the dollar holds firm after Powell’s renaming from Reuters] Three leading Chinese health scholars have challenged government monitoring of mobile phone location data to identify close contacts of Covid-19 cases, in a rare case of public opposition to draconian pandemic prevention strategy of the nation. The trio is led by Chen Fujun to Huaxi Hospital No. 4 in the southwestern city of Chengdu, which imposes travel restrictions and mandatory tests for mobile phone users who have walked 800 m away from a confirmed case for more of 10 minutes. In a letter dated November 8 and viewed by...