The relief of the Chinese at the idea of finally being able to travel echoes the concern abroad.
Because Beijing is abandoning its “zero Covid” policy at a time when the progression of the virus among its 1.4 billion inhabitants seems uncontrolled.
Can the Chinese wave overwhelm the rest of the world?
The Chinese authorities admit it: they are no longer able to measure the extent of the epidemic and have stopped publishing the number of daily cases or actually counting deaths linked to Covid.
Officially, therefore, the virus killed one person on Thursday across the country… According to the
Financial Times
, however, 250 million people were infected in the first twenty days of December alone.
"It's phenomenal given the fact that the entire planet has reported a total of 660 million cases in almost three years
," notes Antoine Flahault, epidemiologist and director of the Institute of Global Health at the University of Geneva.
That said, Omicron probably infected a lot more people…
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