BEIJING — People in China worried on Thursday about spreading COVID\u002D19 to aged relatives as they planned returns to their home towns for holidays that the…
The Lunar New Year holiday, which officially starts on Jan. 21, comes after China last month abandoned a strict anti-virus regime of mass lockdowns that prompted widespread frustration and boiled over into historic protests.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Other warnings from top Chinese health experts for people to avoid aged relatives during the holidays shot to the most-read item on China’s Twitter-like Weibo on Thursday. Chen said she would disinfect her hands before meeting elderly relatives, such as her grandmother, who has managed to avoid infection.The WHO and foreign governments have criticized China for not being forthright about the scale and severity of its outbreak, which has led several countries to impose restrictions on Chinese travelers.
Although international health experts have predicted at least a million COVID-related deaths this year, China has reported just over 5,000 since the pandemic began, a fraction of what other countries have reported as they removed restrictions. But concerns about China’s outbreak has prompted more than a dozen countries to demand negative COVID test results from people arriving from China.
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