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Quarantine building in Beijing (Reuters) China’s extreme approach to containing the coronavirus is unsustainable due to the highly infectious nature of the omicron variant, the director-general of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, noting that it is up to each country to choose which policy to pursue. At a press conference, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described China’s “zero COVID” strategy as “unsustainable” after similar statements last week drew sharp criticism from Beijing. “We know the virus better and we have better tools, including vaccines, so managing the virus should be different now than what we used to do at the...
