The public health expert rafael bengoa has requested a “stricter” control of travelers from China in anticipation of a “brutal” number of infections for the celebration of the Chinese New Year, which takes place from next January 22 and in which millions of trips are planned.
All in all, Bengoa has sent a message of calm by assuring that it is about “omicron sublinages”What are they “very infectious, but just as not severe than in our context”.
In statements to Europa Press, the also former Basque Health Minister has criticized that the Asian giant, “after a thousand days of confinement”, has decided to “release” the zero covid policy “without having prepared the exit”, in contrast to other countries like New Zealand or Australia that, before “breaking the dam” of the zero covid policy, what they did was “vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate, and also ensure that they have the infrastructure of the health system ready in case a very strong wave came great”.
In his opinion, in the rest of the world “we will become very vulnerable if another variant appears, which has not yet appeared and is possible, because there are really thousands of people getting infected.” “If this new variant appears, then we will be more vulnerable, and therefore we have to prepare ourselves for that eventuality,” he warned.
What matters now, he continued, is that the Chinese government, which “has been controlling the people rather than controlling an infection”, puts “the batteries” to stop this “kind of chaos that has been created by political decisions “.
Regarding his commitment to the hardening of the Chinese passenger controls travel to Europe, the expert has stated that “in terms of Public Health”, what is convenient now is to be “a little more strict and tell people: ‘for the moment, for two or three months do not go to China’, and the Chinese who come with quite strict border control, as some countries are already doing.”
In his opinion, these controls would go through a “negative covid test” when leaving China, in addition to a control of the wastewater on the plane itself, “because it may happen that someone is negative when getting on the plane and being positive during the flight. In addition, when landing, a more exhaustive control should also be carried out in the event that that person tests positive.
“There, what is convenient is to recommend that person to ‘self-confine’ for five days, something that has not been done, but I think that this will be something that will be done little by little, because the number of people who are becoming infected , and that they are going to get infected by the Chinese New Year is going to be so brutal that it will be necessary to be more strict in relation to the people from China who come here“, has underlined.
Source: Lasexta
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