The programme Insight looks at China’s transition from COVID-19, the political and economic impact and what lies ahead for the rest of the world after the most populous country has resumed international travel.
Airfinity, a United Kingdom-based predictive health analytics company, puts the cumulative number of deaths since Dec 1 at 1.51 million based on its Feb 17 data.“We’re all confused — confusion from getting COVID-19 to dealing with it,” said media producer Yang Xiao, who has seen in various media that people have fought over medicine as supplies ran out. “We’re lacking resources, lacking medicine.
A study by Yale and other researchers showed that the Sinovac vaccine did not produce enough antibodies to neutralise the Omicron variant. Dr Chen Gang says it would be unrealistic to expect the Chinese government to accept foreign-made vaccines. Since the start of the year, the Shanghai Composite Index has been on an upward trend. And he is confident that China’s gross domestic product will grow 6 per cent this year, double the rate last year.
“If the vulnerable people in any given population are still not adequately protected, and you’re going to let in a surge of people who have got as yet unclear vaccination or infection status, then that’s going to expose these groups of people,” said infectious disease physician Asok Kurup.There is also concern that a new variant of the Sars-CoV-2 virus could emerge in China and proliferate via travellers from the country.
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