China's dynamic zero-COVID policy successful at keeping deaths low: expert

STORY: China's dynamic zero-COVID policy successful at keeping deaths low: expert DATELINE: Nov. 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:44 LOCATION: BALI, Indonesia CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Jeffrey Sachs 2. various of nucleic acid tests 3. SOUNDBITE (English): JEFFREY SACHS, Director of Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University STORYLINE: Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, says that China's dynamic zero-COVID policy has been very successful at keeping the deaths from the virus very low. SOUNDBITE (English): JEFFREY SACHS, Director of Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University "China's role is positive. Of course, China's grappling with this question of how to handle COVID at this moment. You know the China (dynamic) zero COVID policy has been very successful at keeping the deaths very low, because compared to the United States where we had more than a million deaths from COVID, China had some thousands or tens of thousa