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Beijing said the city would persist with its zero-COVID policies "over the next five years", although it quickly removed reference to a time period in the announcement. Beijing Daily, a state run newspaper, quoted Cai Qi, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) secretary of Beijing , as saying that the city "will maintain its pandemic control policy for the next five years". Shortly after the article was published, and had started spreading rapidly on social media, reference to the time period was removed. It was unclear why the amendment was made. It is possible that the mention of "five years" was...
