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New wave of COVID-19 in China unlikely, chief epidemiologist says

Chinese authorities have assured that the likelihood of a new wave of COVID-19 is “negligible”. | Fountain: AFP

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Chief Epidemiologist, China Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Wu Zunyuassured that the likelihood that the country will face a “new wave of COVID-19 infections” in the coming months is “negligible”.

The population’s immune defenses are “high,” Wu said, adding that China “he just survived a wave of infections” from which “most people have already recovered.”

Compared to three years ago, the virus and its variants have “weakened their pathogenicity,” said the expert, who is quoted today in a local newspaper. Global Times.

“We have more knowledge about the virus, more antivirals, and more experience in treating it,” Wu said.

End of COVID Zero

After almost three years of severe restrictions, imprisonments and near-total border closures, which resulted in protests in various parts of the country, China began to dismantle the directive Zero COVID at the beginning of December and on January 8, she downgraded the disease management from category A (level of maximum danger) to B, thus effectively marking the end of this strategy.

The “Zero COVID” policy has “prevented the widespread spread of the original strain of coronavirus and its delta variant, reducing the number of deaths and serious cases of COVID-19,” the expert said.

“In the future, the emergence of another large-scale epidemic is unlikely due to the optimization of control and prevention strategies,” Wu said.

The CDC said on Thursday that the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the country’s hospitals decreased by 97.6% compared with the peak recorded on January 4.

To date, 4,273 deaths have been reported in clinics, compared to 102 deaths on 6 February. (EFE)


Source: RPP

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