Xi Jinping tells officials ‘persistence is victory’ as China battles Covid outbreak

President Xi Jinping has called on officials to make Covid-19 control their top priority and to swiftly contain an outbreak that has now spread to most parts of China.Xi also said China would stick to a strategy to “prevent Covid-19 being introduced from overseas and causing local transmission” – or zero-Covid – in a meeting of the Politburo, the Communist Party’s top decision-making body, on Thursday.The president called for efforts to overcome wariness and complacency, as the country enters a…

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