The head of the World Health Organization said May 10 that the Chinese regime’s zero-COVID policy is “unsustainable,” a rare criticism that has been quickly censored on China’s Internet.
“When we talk about the zero-Covid strategy, we don’t think that it’s sustainable, considering the behavior of the virus now and what we anticipate in the future,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a media briefing on Tuesday.
“We have discussed about this issue with Chinese experts and we indicated that the approach will not be sustainable … I think a shift would be very important,” he said.
The rare rebuke from the director-general, who had repeatedly praised the Chinese regime’s response earlier in the pandemic, was posted in Chinese by the United Nations on its social media accounts on Wednesday morning.
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