China Covid: China battling new wave of corona virus, 6.5 crore cases may come up every week

The world is now coming out of the bad phase of Corona crisis. Rising cases in many places are proof that the danger is not yet over. The worst is in China which is facing wave after wave of infection. A new wave of corona is being seen in China, in which 65 million cases can be seen every week by the end of June. Bloomberg reported that the COVID-19 wave in China will peak by the end of June, as there could be about 65 million infections a week, according to a senior health adviser. As per reports, government officials are racing to ramp up their vaccine arsenal to fight the latest Omicron variant.

Since late April, the coronavirus variant XBB has been causing a surge in cases across the country and is expected to hit 40 million infections per week by the end of May. before it is expected to reach 65 million a month later, local media outlets reported. cited a presentation given by respiratory disease specialist Zhong Nanshan during a biotech conference held in the southern city of Guangzhou. The forecast by disease expert Zhong Nanshan has provided a rare insight into how the new wave could play out in the country of 1.4 billion residents, nearly six months after government officials abruptly lifted restrictions imposed under a zero Covid policy. People’s immunity is decreasing. With the view that people need to live with the virus, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention has not been updating its weekly figures since the beginning of this month, resulting in a question mark on the impact of Covid.

Estimates of coronavirus cases rising to 65 million suggest that the resurgence is likely to be more muted than previous waves that hit the country late last year and in January. In the first wave, 37 million people were probably infected with a different Omicron sublineage each day.