Officials say COVID cases may have peaked in many parts of China, but will likely spread as 2 billion Chinese travel across the country for Spring Festival
Coronavirus cases have peaked in many parts of China, officials said this week, after an explosion of infections following the country’s abrupt decision late last year to abandon its tough zero-COVID approach. But another wave of cases could already be on the way, with more than 2 billion trips expected around the week-long Lunar New Year holiday, which begins on January 21.
Speaking to state media on Wednesday, government health adviser Guo Jianwen recommended that “if older people in your home have not been infected yet, my suggestion is that it’s better not to visit them.” With the current wave peaking in most areas — according to local authorities in multiple major cities and provinces — Prof. Liang said it was unlikely another would occur as a result of the holiday travel.
This is just what officials in Zhejiang, Fujian and Shandong provinces are all predicting, with local authorities issuing warnings this week of a new wave of cases that will hit towards the end of this month, after the initial travel period. Over the weekend, Weibo, the country’s largest social media site, shut down over a thousand accounts because they had been critical of pandemic policies. This included popular nationalist bloggers who had long been cheerleaders for zero-COVID and were caught wrong-footed by the sudden reopening.
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