Coronavirus: China’s top disease expert lays down conditions for post-pandemic normal

China can return to a post-pandemic normal if two tough criteria are met, the country’s leading epidemiologist has said.The case fatality rate must be controlled at 0.1 per cent and the coronavirus’ reproduction number should stay within the range of 1.0 to 1.5, according to Zhong Nanshan, one of China’s top respiratory disease experts and a trusted government adviser on its Covid-19 response.“But realising these criteria is premised upon carrying out mass inoculation, establishing herd…

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