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April 12, 2021 Just last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping said he has no intention of ending his zero-COVID policy. Separately, a peer-reviewed report from Shanghai’s Fudan University that wass published in the journal Nature on Tuesday found that China’s level of immunity is not strong enough to fight an uncontrolled omicron epidemic, which could cause a “tsunami” of 1.55 million deaths if the coronavirus were allowed to spread unchecked with that strain ascendant. It comes as China faces criticism and anger from some locked-down citizens over the country’s approach to virus control, which has included a strict lockdown in...
