{"id":44387,"date":"2022-05-11T04:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/10\/china-zero-covid-policy-world-health-organization"},"modified":"2022-05-11T04:00:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T19:00:45","slug":"chinas-zero-covid-policy-is-not-sustainable-who-director-general-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44387","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s zero-Covid policy is not sustainable, WHO director general says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus calls for shift in approach as scores of Chinese cities remain in strictly enforced lockdown<\/p>\n<p>The head of the World Health Organization has voiced concerns over China\u2019s effort to eliminate the Covid virus, in a rare rebuke to Xi Jinping\u2019s pledge to achieve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/06\/xi-jinping-attacks-doubters-as-he-doubles-down-on-chinas-zero-covid-policy\">\u201cdynamic zero-Covid\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO\u2019s director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told a media briefing on Tuesday that his organisation does not think China\u2019s Covid policy is \u201csustainable considering the behaviour of the virus\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/10\/china-zero-covid-policy-world-health-organization\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus calls for shift in approach as scores of Chinese cities remain in strictly enforced lockdownThe head of the World Health Organization has voiced concerns over China\u2019s effort to eliminate the Covid virus, in a rare rebuke t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1066,2458,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-omicron-variant","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44388,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44387\/revisions\/44388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}