World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus's remarks are removed from China's Weibo, while WeChat disables sharing for a similar post by the United Nations.
BEIJING, China – A United Nations Weibo post on the World Health Organization chief’s comments that China’s zero-tolerance COVID-19 policy is not sustainable was removed from the Chinese social media platform on Wednesday morning, May 11, shortly after being published.
Addressing a media briefing on Tuesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “We don’t think that it is sustainable considering the behavior of the virus and what we now anticipate in the future.” His remarks were posted in Chinese by the United Nations on its social media accounts.
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