China should avoid excessive, "flood-like" COVID measures -former CDC expert

The benefits of China's zero-tolerance approach to COVID-19 continue to outweigh the costs but it should cut back on excessive measures that risk exhausting people, a former Chinese disease control official said on Tuesday. Zeng Guang, former chief epidemiologist at Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said 'flood-like' measures and policies that prove inefficient should be avoided even though China has the financial resources to keep pursuing the goal of zero local infections.