China promises change but sticks to severe 'zero Covid' plan

BEIJING: Chinese leaders promised Thursday to improve quarantine and other anti-virus policies after public frustration boiled over into protests but said they will stick to a severe “zero Covid” strategy that has confined millions of people to their homes and disrupted the economy.
President Xi Jinping’s government is enforcing some of the world’s most extreme anti-virus restrictions despite rising costs while other countries ease travel and other curbs. The government has given no…