China Should Not Fully Open before Global Death Rate Falls: Herald

China should wait for the global mortality rate from Covid-19 to fall further before fully opening its borders, the 21st Century Business Herald reported citing the country's leading expert Zhong Nanshan, who spoke to a forum of global mayors on Thursday. Currently, the global death rate is over 1% among reported cases, and it needs to come down further, Zhong was cited as saying. The transmission coefficient also needs to come down before returning to normal life, Zhong said. China must maintain the "strict controls" it has adopted, though they should not be made more severe to allow the economy to restart, said Zhong. China should also start giving third doses of vaccines, Zhong said. China sees the current anti-pandemic situations as "severe and complicated," with more than 1,000 infections since Oct. 17, and they could be traced to imported cases, the newspaper said.