Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), reiterated on Tuesday his organization’s view that China’s strategy to fight the Wuhan coronavirus with strict restrictions is “unsustainable.”
“We know viruses better and have better tools, including vaccines, so handling the virus really needs to be different from what we did at the start of the pandemic,” Tedros said. Said. constantIt marks China’s ability to contain the first Wuhan coronavirus pandemic with strict citywide restrictions.
A young woman looks out the window in a residential area in Shanghai, China, April 12, 2022. (Getty photos)
The WHO director said that his Beijing-based organization’s latest mutation of the Chinese coronavirus is significantly different from the original strain, so different methods can be proposed to deal with new outbreaks, but “it varies with each country, as far as policy choices are concerned.” choose this.”
In this photo released by China’s Xinhua news agency, a volunteer speaks through a megaphone to residents of an apartment building in Shanghai, China, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. (via AP Chen Jianli/Xinhua)
Dr. Michael Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergency Programme, is more critical of China’s approach to quarantine. tortured Terrible human and economic damage to cities like Shanghai.
“A single suppression strategy is not a sustainable way out of the pandemic for any country,” Ryan said.
WHO angrily criticized China’s quarantine policy last week, calling it “unsustainable”. from work He was seen as “irresponsible” by the Chinese Communist Party. China then ordered its massive censorship device to remove posts mentioning WHO officials and photos of Tedros on Chinese social media.
Chinese officials on Wednesday go They are making progress against a supposedly less lethal variant of omicron at the close in Shanghai, which should “return to normal in June” after nearly ten weeks of quarantine. The Chinese government has responded to growing complaints about the appalling living conditions in Shanghai by censoring the complaints.
Source: Breitbart
