SHANGHAI - China on Saturday (Jan 7) marked the first day of 'chun yun', the 40-day period of Lunar New Year travel known pre-pandemic as the world's largest annual migration of people, bracing for a huge increase in travellers and the spread of Covid-19 infections. This Lunar New Year public holiday, which officially runs from Jan 21, will be the...
People wear protective face shields enter the Beijing Railway Station as the annual Spring Festival travel rush starts, amid the coronavirus disease , ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year, in Beijing, China, on Jan 7, 2023.SHANGHAI - China on Saturday marked the first day of "chun yun", the 40-day period of Lunar New Year travel known pre-pandemic as the world's largest annual migration of people, bracing for a huge increase in travellers and the spread of Covid-19 infections.
But the abrupt changes have exposed many of China's 1.4 billion population to the virus for the first time, triggering a wave of infections that is overwhelming some hospitals, emptying pharmacy shelves of medicines and causing long lines to form at crematoriums. "I dare not go back to my hometown, for fear of bringing the poison back," said one such comment on the Twitter-like Weibo.
"It's necessary to provide convenient services, accelerate vaccination for the elderly in rural areas and the construction of grassroots lines of defence."Some analysts are now saying the current wave of infections may have already peaked. "For us, the border opening means my kids can finally meet their grandparents for the first time since the pandemic began," she said. "Two of our children have never been able to see their grandpa, so we cannot wait for them to meet."
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