Yellow peaches and oranges: China quells fake news on Covid amid panic-buying

The state-managed media additionally driven again towards lengthy-held fake ideals that canned yellow peaches should assist with restoration and consuming oranges should result in a superb antigen test. China is caution its residents towards a few questionable and unstable tries at self-remedy amid surging coronavirus infections, because the state seeks to address panic-shopping for of medication following an all at once rapid unwinding of its Covid Zero policy.

The People’s Daily, the Communist Party mouthpiece, admonished the exercise of blending or taking extra tablets to nurse a fever, at the same time as quashing ...