Dr Zhong Nanshan, former president of the Chinese Medical Association, said China has to move away from lockdown cycles in order to normalise the economy and society.
China’s top Covid-19 expert Zhong Nanshan has said the country cannot pursue “dynamic zero-Covid” in the long term and should reopen to bring social and economic development back to normal, and adapt to global reopening. The editorial titled “Strategies for reopening in the forthcoming Covid-19 era in China” was published in the English-language National Science Review journal on April 6..