Corona virus in China: XBB variant of Corona can prove fatal, millions of people will be infected in a week

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. This big claim has been made by Zhong Nanshan, director of China’s National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases. Nanshan claims that by June, six and a half million people in China may fall prey to Corona every week. As per reports, government officials are busy increasing their vaccine stock to fight the latest Omicron variant.

Chinese officials are scrambling to advance vaccines to combat the ongoing new wave of the coronavirus. Explain that the peak of Kovid infection is expected in June and it can infect 65 million people in a week. New XBB variants of the virus are evolving to overcome developed immunity. Following China’s sudden departure from its zero Covid policy last year, The Washington Post reported. According to Chinese media, XBB is a hybrid of Omicron’s BA.2.75 and BJ.2 sub-variants.

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.