While the new COVID-19 variants are widely recognized to cause mild symptoms, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) media has to say otherwise.
An analysis of the BA.5 Omicron subvariant done by a Chinese expert and published by CCTV on July 11 a CCP state media agency was removed and replaced with a different analysis that concentrated on the severity of the variant.
Overseas analysts explained that the article it was replaced with rationalized the strict lockdown measures behind the zero-COVID policy, despite projections that the economy will reach zero growth, as suggested in a recent official data release.
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