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China government health adviser warns of surging COVID cases

A woman puts on a raincoat as a protective measure at an entrance of a railway station in Wuhan, Hubei province, China [Martin Pollard/Reuters]

China faces a surge in COVID-19 cases after partially easing aspects of its so-called “zero-COVID” policy, a top government health adviser has said.

The warning from top epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan in an interview with state media on Sunday comes as official case numbers have dropped in China, a phenomenon largely attributed to a dramatic falloff in testing due to the policy about-face announced last week.

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