This Saturday, January 21, the chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicated that the risk of a new resumption of the Covid epidemic was low in China.
A large rebound of the Covid-19 epidemic in China over the next two or three months is very small because 80% of the population has already been infected with the SARS-Cov-2 virus, the chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Wu Zunyou.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said during the week that it feared an epidemic outbreak in China with the Lunar New Year.
For the first time since 2020, this New Year, which officially begins this Saturday, is not accompanied by movement restrictions after the Chinese authorities abandoned the “zero Covid” policy.
60,000 dead in one month
Massive displacements during the current Lunar New Year period could promote the spread of the pandemic, increasing cases of infections in some regions, but a second wave of Covid-19 is unlikely in the short term, assured Wu Zunyou, on the Weibo social network.
China said on Thursday that it had passed the peak of the epidemic wave and that nearly 60,000 people with the disease had died in hospitals between December 8 and January 12.
Some experts, however, consider this last figure to be largely underestimated, with people who died at home being excluded from the count and several doctors having indicated that they were dissuaded from mentioning COVID-19 as a cause of death on patient certificates.
