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Issued on: 17/03/2022 - 15:48 Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday the country would "stick with" its zero-Covid strategy, state TV reported, as the world's most populous nation battles its largest outbreak since the early days of the pandemic. The country where the virus emerged in late 2019 has largely kept subsequent outbreaks under control thanks to a combination of strict border controls, lengthy quarantines and targeted lockdowns, and has not reported any coronavirus-related deaths for over a year.But the highly transmissible Omicron variant is posing a stern challenge to that strategy, prompting authorities to close off cities including...
