China deletes WHO chief’s criticism of zero-COVID policy from social media platforms — Radio Free Asia

A worker disinfects the queue area of a swab test collection site for Covid-19 coronavirus in Beijing, May 11, 2022. Credit: AFP.

Ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) censors rushed to delete comments by the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) criticizing its zero-COVID policy as unsustainable from social media platforms in China on Wednesday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on China to change its approach, saying CCP leader Xi Jinping’s favored policy “will not be sustainable”

China scrambles to contain ‘stealth’ omicron as outbreak spreads through country — Radio Free Asia

Residents queue to undergo nucleic acid tests for the Covid-19 coronavirus in Yantai, in China's eastern Shandong province, March 14, 2022. Credit: AFP

Authorities in China locked down the majority of the northeastern province of Jilin on Monday in a scramble to consist of a highly transmissible version of COVID-19, deploying troops to the region to keep order and help in a mass testing and quarantine operation.The National Health Commission said it had verified 1,337 locally transferred cases

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