the peak of incidence of covid cases in china to be continue “until February or March”, has predicted the former chief of epidemiologists of the China Center for Disease Control Zeng Guang, quoted in the last hours by local media.
Zeng has referred to the different phases of the covid epidemic that different cities and regions are facing: “The peak of the epidemic it has happened in places like Beijing but is yet to start in some points like rural areas“, he pointed out. Therefore, The peak of the wave of covid “at the national level” will last “during February and March”Zeng asserted during a recent event.
In addition, the peak of severe cases of the disease it will last “for a still longer time”and cited the example of Beijing, where “the crest of the wave of cases has already ended, but the one with serious pictures is still active“. The former official expressed his concern about “the situation in rural areas of China” and asked for “attention” to “implement a prevention strategy” in them, as the authorities have indicated in recent weeks before the approach of the Lunar New Year, the festive period in which the Chinese usually return to their places of origin. The festivities will fall this year between January 21 and 27.
The Council of State (Executive) already asked the local governments in the middle of last month to give priority to health services in rural areas”to protect the population“, pointing to “their relative scarcity of health care resources.” Despite local experts stating that the peak of infections has already passed in large cities such as Beijing, Chengdu (center) or Canton (south) and that populous provinces such as Henan (center) have estimated that the majority of their populations -in some cases, up to 90%- have already been infected, other places have asked for caution due to the millions of displacements that will take place during the festivities.
The fast virus spread has cast doubt on the reliability of the official figures, which have only reported a handful of recent deaths from the disease despite the numerous scenes of high hospital pressure. The CEO of the World Health Organization (WHO)Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, assured this week that China It is not giving complete numbers of deaths from covid-19 in the current outbreakwhich makes it impossible to know the true scope of the disease, even on a global level.
On January 8, covid ceased to be managed in China as a category A disease -level of maximum danger and for whose containment the most severe measures are required- to become a category B, which contemplates a more lax control, thus marking in practice the end of the policy of ‘zero covid’, withdrawn by the authorities after the produced protests.
Source: Lasexta
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