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A medical worker takes a swab sample from a citizen for nucleic acid test at a testing site in Dongli district in North China's Tianjin, Jan 15, 2022. [Photo/Xinhua] The World Health Organization has denied claims that some countries implementing strict COVID-19 measures－such as a "zero-COVID policy"－have created higher risks for their population while some others have given up their fight against the highly transmissible Omicron variant. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, said on Tuesday that the starting conditions of the pandemic set the opportunities that the countries had. Many Asian countries took aggressive measures...
