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China’s zero-tolerance mindset to COVID-19 appears to be extending to even just criticism of its pandemic policy, signaling the country’s intent to uphold some of the world’s harshest measures to contain the coronavirus despite growing economic and social costs. The country’s internet censors have removed comments critical of China’s “zero COVID” approach, including remarks from the WHO chief that the country’s absolutist pandemic policy isn’t sustainable. Video clips of WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s Tuesday remarks calling for a change in strategy have been largely scrubbed off the Chinese internet. Screenshots of foreign media reports on his comments were also...
