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Beijing calls out localities for COVID over-reaction

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The central government is clearly worried about the negative impact on the economy from overly excessive COVID restrictions.

In fact, on Friday, the State Council's inter-agency COVID response team held a press conference to name and shame a number of local governments for over-reacting to COVID...