Coronavirus: who is Liang Wannian, the renowned mainland Chinese epidemiologist who will guide Hong Kong’s anti-pandemic efforts?

When Dr Liang Wannian sets foot in Hong Kong on Monday, he will be the highest-ranking Beijing health official coming to help manage the worsening fifth wave of Covid-19 infections.As a key architect of China’s “zero-Covid” strategy, Liang has been a regular face at major press conferences on the progress of virus containment in the country since 2020.The 60-year-old firefighter previously led the Covid Response Expert Team of the National Health Commission (NHC) a number of times, heading to…

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