Beijing’s Zero-COVID Crackdown Not Likely to Work: White House COVID-19 Coordinator

A child receives a swab test for COVID-19 in a compound during a lockdown in Pudong district in Shanghai, China on April 17, 2022. Liu Jin/AFP via Getty Images

The harsh treatment of Chinese citizens in the name of extinguishing COVID-19 isn’t likely to succeed, the coordinator of the White House’s COVID-19 team said.

“We don’t think that a zero-COVID strategy, what China is pursuing, is one that is likely to work,” Dr. Ashish Jha, who recently joined the administration, said on “Fox News Sunday.”