China seeks to perfect its prevention measures against Covid-19

China will make your prevention measures Covid-19 be more scientific, precise and effective, a Communist Party spokesman said on Saturday, while reiterating Beijing’s stance that its approach to the pandemic is the correct one.

Beijing reaffirmed this week its commitment to a COVID policy that has prevented mass infections and deaths, but has also caused profound economic damage and sown widespread frustration among Chinese citizens.

Speaking to reporters ahead of the Communist Party congress, spokesman Sun Yeli said that while the pandemic was expected to end soon, the reality was that it had not.

China’s “zero tolerance” policy has kept the infection rate and death rate low and ensured social and economic stability, Sun said. “If the overall balance is taken into account, our epidemic prevention measures are the most economical and effective.”

“Our prevention and control strategies and measures will be more scientific, more precise and more effective,” he said. “We firmly believe that persistence is victory”

Since 2020, China has recorded 5,226 deaths from Covid-19 among its population of 1.4 billion people. In contrast, in the United States, more than a million people have died from the disease.

From April to June, the world’s second-largest economy barely grew as authorities battled the variant Omicronhighly transmissible.

cities of all Chinaincluding its financial capital Shanghai, have been subjected to varying degrees of economically disruptive and socially suffocating closure.

The president is expected Xi Jinping obtain a third five-year term as general secretary of the party in congress.

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