His unusual call on social media for transparency earned him 34,000 likes on Weibo. Read more at straitstimes.com.
epidemic experts need to speak out and China ought to conduct comprehensive research and make any studies transparent to the public.
"About the future, China needs very rational research and calculations," said Mr Hu, former editor-in-chief of nationalist state tabloid Global Times. China has significantly tightened its Covid-19 policies this year to contain the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron even as its death toll since the pandemic began remains low - around 5,226 as of Saturday - and as many other countries let go of tough restrictions and learn to live with the coronavirus.
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