BEIJING: People in China worried on Thursday (Jan 12) about spreading COVID-19 to aged relatives as they planned returns to their hometowns for holidays that the World Health Organization (WHO) warns could inflame a raging outbreak. The Chinese New Year holiday, which officially starts from Jan 21, comes a
BEIJING: People in China worried on Thursday about spreading COVID-19 to aged relatives as they planned returns to their hometowns for holidays that the World Health Organization warns could inflame a raging outbreak.abandoned a strict anti-virus regimeThat abrupt U-turn unleashed COVID-19 on a 1.4 billion population which has been shielded from the virus since it first erupted in China's Wuhan city in 2019., where many elderly are still not fully vaccinated.
Other warnings from top Chinese health experts for people not to visit aged relatives during the holidays, which are expected to see millions travel from mega-cities to rural villages, shot to the most-read item on China's Twitter-like Weibo on Thursday. China has been reporting five or fewer deaths a day over the past month, numbers that are inconsistent with the long queues seen at funeral homes. The country did not report COVID-19 fatalities data on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Although international health experts have predicted at least 1 million COVID-related deaths this year, China has reported just over 5,000 since the pandemic began, a fraction of what other countries have reported as they removed restrictions.
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