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Zero-Covid hurts 75% of European firms in China

China is the last major economy wedded to a strategy of stamping out emerging virus outbreaks as they arise. (Photo: AFP)

BEIJING: China's "inflexible" and "inconsistent" zero-Covid policy is crippling European business operations in the country, a major business lobby said Wednesday, warning that the presence of the companies "can no longer be taken for granted".

The report by the European Union's Chamber of Commerce in China marks the latest statement by the foreign business community that Beijing's hardline virus curbs are harming the world's second-largest economy and isolating it on the international stage.

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