The Covid outbreak has infected 80% of China’s population: Report | World news
The possibility of a major COVID-19 resurgence in China in the next two or three months is remote as 80% of people are infected, a prominent government scientist said on Saturday.
The mass movement of people during the ongoing New Year holiday season may spread the pandemic, boosting infections in some areas, but a second wave of Covid is unlikely in the near term, Wu Zunyou, an epidemiologist at the China’s Ministry of Disease Control and Prevention, said on the Weibo social media platform.
Hundreds of millions of Kannada are traveling across the country for holiday gatherings that have been suspended under recent Covid easing, raising fears of new outbreaks in rural areas ill-equipped to handle large outbreaks. .
China has passed the peak of Covid patients in malaria hospitals, emergency rooms and with critical conditions, the National Health Commission official said on Wednesday.
Nearly 60,000 people with Covid have died in hospital as of January 12, roughly a month after China unexpectedly lifted its zero-Covid policy, according to government data.
But some experts say the figure may understate the full impact, as it excludes those who died at home, and because many doctors have said they are reluctant to point to Covid as a cause of death.
