Should China prepare for a large-scale epidemic?
The Omicron variant is spreading "rapidly" in the country, warned Sunday one of the most respected figures in the fight against Covid in China, the specialist in respiratory diseases Zhong Nanshan.
Difficult, however, to provide data due to the level of testing which has collapsed.
The Chinese government, in fact, decided to ease its very strict health restrictions at the beginning of December, in particular putting an end to large-scale systematic PCR screenings and opening up the possibility of home isolation for mild and asymptomatic cases.
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