BEIJING - Luggage-laden passengers flocked to railway stations and airports in China’s megacities on Monday (Jan 16), heading home for holidays that health experts fear could intensify a Covid-19 outbreak that has claimed thousands of lives. After three years of strict and suffocating anti-virus controls, China in early December abruptly abandoned its “zero-Covid” policy, letting the virus run freely through...
BEIJING - Luggage-laden passengers flocked to railway stations and airports in China’s megacities on Monday , heading home for holidays that health experts fear could intensify a Covid-19 outbreak that has claimed thousands of lives.
Even those numbers most likely exclude many people dying at home, especially in rural areas with weaker medical systems, one health expert has said. Several experts forecast more than one million people in China will die from the disease this year. Beijing’s main rail station has been packed with passengers leaving the capital in recent days, according to Reuters witnesses.
In Hong Kong, the government has said it would increase the number of people who can pass through designated land border control points to the mainland to 65,000 people per day from 50,000 between Jan 18 and Jan 21.
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