World should 'calm down' about China COVID variants - Chinese scientist

The world should 'calm down' about the possibility of new COVID-19 variants circulating in China, leading Chinese scientist George Gao said.

People cross a road amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China December 31, 2022. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang

A paper by Gao and colleagues published in the Lancet medical journal on Wednesday showed that no new variants had emerged in the initial weeks of China's recent outbreak, after the end of its zero-COVID policy saw a huge wave of cases. The variants causing infections in China were the same Omicron sub-variants - BA.5.2 and BF.7 - seen elsewhere in the world, he said by email.

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