The message from the Chinese health authorities has changed. They have gone from strict ‘COVID zero’ measures to minimizing the impact of the coronavirus. “Most cases are mild cases”said Guo Yanhong, director of the NHC’s Office of Health Emergency Response.
Brais, a Spaniard residing in China, indicates that now “you don’t have to teach the health codes to enter the train, or to enter restaurants, or for anything else.” According to him he says, everything has changed from one day to the next.
In this sense, the epidemiologist Daniel López Acuña points out that “what they have done is make the mitigation measures less draconian”, something that, according to the expert, “it’s understandable after three years and the protests of the population”.
Community foreigner has gratefully received this relaxationalthough, according to Brais, “the Chinese not so much.” “They they are still very afraid of the virus“, says the Spaniard residing in China.
And it is that despite the protests that have taken place throughout the country against ‘COVID zero’, many now fear what may happen. “I didn’t know anyone who had tested positive here in China, nor did I know anyone who knew someone who had tested positive, but A lot of people have tested positive in the last week“, says Brais.
850 million infections could be reached in a first big wave
Now people run out of stocks of antigen tests in pharmacies and continue to leave the streets empty. According to images shared on social networks, some hospitals are already beginning to become saturated, and according to forecasts, and given the low immunization and vaccination rates, up to 850 million infections in a first wave.
In this sense, they project up to 20,000 daily deaths for March and up to a million more deaths in the coming months. “If the relaxation of the measures in China is done in a way that widely favors infections, we are going to see saturation of hospitals and an increase in excessive deaths,” warned Daniel López Acuña.
While, quarantine centersuntil now emblem of Chinese pandemic policy, they are now abandoned.
Source: Lasexta
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