Projections have suggested the world's second-largest economy could now face an explosion of cases and more than a million deaths next year following a sudden change of course.
China has been hit by a new Covid wave, mostly dominated by the Omicron variant. Infections and deaths are skyrocketing in the country. After a spike in infections and unprecedented public protests, China began rolling out its zero-COVID policy last week. Projections have suggested the world's second-largest economy could now face an explosion of cases and more than a million deaths next year following a sudden change of course.
Here are the top 10 points on the COVID-19 surge in China:
1) China reported 3,101 new symptomatic COVID-19 infections on Tuesday.
2) According to the National Health Commission, the country recorded no new deaths related to Covid-19
3) As well as the risks to China, some global health figures have warned that allowing the virus to spread domestically could give it room to mutate, potentially creating a new variant that it How has it evolved allowing it to spread to other areas.
4) At this time, data from China shared with both the WHO and the virus database GISAID suggests that the globally dominant Omicron and its offshoots are circulating, although the picture is incomplete due to the lack of complete data.
5) According to epidemiologist and health economist Eric Feigel-Ding, the doubling rate of cases in China is not even a day as infections are doubling in hours. He says that there is an estimate that more than 60 percent of China and 10 percent of the world's population are likely to be infected in the next 90 days. The death toll is likely to be in the millions and this is just the beginning.
6) Schools remain closed for the next month in Shanghai and several other outbreak-hit cities.
7) The US economy is "already being hit hard" by the latest COVID developments in China and energy shortages in Europe, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyomo said on Tuesday, but it is more likely than in the past to face such pressures. I am in better condition.
8) According to its monthly report for December, Japan will also focus on the COVID-19 situation in China apart from risks of global economic slowdown, price rise and supply constraints. "If China's transition situation has an impact on the supply chain or trade, it could also have an impact on Japan's economy, as we have seen earlier this year," said a Cabinet Office official.
9) Several World Health Organization (WHO) advisers have said that "it is too early to declare an end to the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic" due to a potentially devastating wave coming to China, Reuters reported.
10) Amid the sudden spurt in COVID-19 cases in Japan, South Korea, Brazil, China and the US, sources told news agency PTI that Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will hold a meeting with senior officials and experts today on the COVID-19 situation. in India.
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