Health workers take swab samples to be tested for Covid-19 at a makeshift testing site along a street in Beijing on May 11.
Mandatory Credit:	Jade Gao/AFP/Getty Images

Health workers take swab samples to be tested for Covid-19 at a makeshift testing site along a street in Beijing on May 11.
Mandatory Credit: Jade Gao/AFP/Getty Images

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Chinese censors scrub internet after senior party official gives speech on timeline of zero-Covid in Beijing

Chinese censors scrambled to delete what appears to be a misleading quote by a senior Communist Party official published in state media Monday, which claimed the "zero-Covid" policy would remain in place in Beijing "for the next five years," in an effort to tame an online backlash.