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SHANGHAI (REUTERS) - China's tough zero-Covid measures remain essential to defeat the pandemic and buy time to improve vaccination rates and develop new treatments, senior health advisers wrote in recently published reports. Shanghai, a city of 25 million people, has been locked down for nearly six weeks as it battles China's biggest coronavirus outbreak, but the government have shrugged off criticism of its zero-Covid strategy, saying it remains the best option. In correspondence published by the peer-reviewed medical journal the Lancet last Friday (May 6), a team of city medical experts said Shanghai's vital role in the national economy made...
