China has removed a United Nations post from its Weibo social media site, in which it contained statements by the Director of the World Health Organization, in which he said:China’s zero-Covid policy is unsustainable‘, shortly following it was published on Wednesday.
WeChat, another Chinese social networking site, also disabled the feature to share a similar post to the United Nations.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director of the organization, told a news briefing on Tuesday: “We don’t think it’s sustainable. Given the behavior of the virus and what we anticipate now in the future“.
The United Nations published his statements on its social media accounts in Chinese.
Neither the United Nations nor Weibo has yet commented on the news, while WeChat added a clarification with the post saying, “This article is prohibited from sharing due to its violation of relevant laws and regulations.”
China insists on compliance Zero Covid policy in the fight once morest the pandemic It first emerged in the city of Wuhan at the end of 2019, and last week warned once morest criticizing a policy it says saves lives.
