They don’t think it’s a cause for concern for the rest of the world.
Covid-19 experts believe that what is happening in China, with an explosion of infections in recent weeks, is a consequence of its “lack of immunity” and do not believe it is a cause for concern for the rest of the world.
In the statements to Onda Vasca, collected by Europa Press, the experts analyzed the increase in covid-19 infections in China and its possible influence on other countries.
In this sense, the microbiologist Ignacio López-Goñi has ensured that we must “remain calm and not worry”, since although it is necessary to “be vigilant”, because the pandemic continues, everything indicates that “the variants that are in community transmission in China are the same as in the rest of the planet” so that “no new viruses emerge.
Therefore, he stressed that the covid-19 virus would not become more virulent, but rather that what is happening is “a problem of lack of immunity in the population”.
Similarly, he felt that “there is little point in trying to control the entry of travelers from China and close the borders”, as it is not effective.
For her part, the virologist Margarita del Val acknowledged that there is little data on this explosion of infections, but recalled that during most of the pandemic, China has undergone “a very powerful isolation” which has generated “very few cases of covid “.
In doing so, it has impacted that most of the rest of the world is “flooded with viruses” because they have been allowed to circulate freely for months. “The problem to worry about now is that we pass it to China. China is a problem, but for itself because of the low level of immunity and vaccination coverage,” she said.
Finally, the immunologist Alfredo Corell insisted that the Chinese population is “poorly immunized due to its strict confinements” and does not even have vaccine immunity since “they didn’t bet on it” and, moreover, their vaccine is ” less effective”.
