Corona could explode if China leaves its door open to the world

Omicron variants can pose a challenge to the medical system

6.30 lakh cases of Kovid-19 registered in China every day if strict restrictions and zero Kovid policy are removed: Peking Uni survey warning

BEIJING: China has been and continues to be sharply criticized around the world for its Zero Covid policy, as it has closed its doors to citizens of all countries. However, a recent survey clearly warned that if China opened its doors to the rest of the world, there could be a massive outbreak of the corona virus, with up to 6.30 million cases of covid reported every day.

The survey, conducted by mathematicians at Peking University, found that if China abandoned its zero-covid policy and lifted sanctions and followed suit, the country could record 6.30 million covid cases per day. Estimates of the potential epidemic reflect the reality of a massive epidemic that could be a huge burden on the country's medical system, the survey said.

On Saturday, 23 new cases of covid were reported in China, including 20 cases involving foreign nationals. Given the declining number of covid cases in China, it appears that authorities have taken very effective measures in densely populated cities, including Beijing, to prevent the transmission of corona. China's National Health Commission, which released statistics on Kovid patients in the country, said that 98631 cases of Kovid had been reported in the country so far and 4636 people had died, while 785 patients were still under treatment.

Zhong Nanshe, a top Chinese respiratory specialist, warned that the new and highly contagious Omicron variant of the corona virus could pose a greater challenge to preventing and controlling the epidemic as the World Health Organization warned that the new virus could spread rapidly. The form changes. 76.8 per cent of China's population has been given both doses of the covid vaccine, which provides a strong basis for the goal of giving 80 per cent of the population both doses of the vaccine, he said.