The world watches in utmost concern as the world’s most populous country China get prepared for a high surge in severe covid cases this winter over the next few weeks.
Beijing prepares itself to face a severe surge in severe covid cases in the coming weeks as proclaimed by a respiratory expert this week. The easing of harsh covid policies after protests in China have backfired against the communist government as the cases jumped after the restriction were eased and the experts say that it will likely to gather pace through winter , with projections suggesting China could face a million deaths due to this virus by next year.
China has been highly criticized of what it considers as covid, it uses a narrow definition of what can be classified as covid and what cannot due to which the regime have reported no news cases in DEC 20. Experts consider this way of evaluation baseless however even with their biased reporting the numbers might see a sharp increase in coming weeks in the winter as claimed by a repository expert
We must act quickly and prepare fever clinics, emergency, and severe treatment resources,” Wang Guangfa, a respiratory expert from Peking University First Hospital, told the newspaper.
Economic impact:
The US on Tuesday have conveyed that the US is ready to assist China with its covid outbreak, specifying that an uncontrollable outburst of covid cases in the World’s second-largest economy will send jitters to the already fragile world economy.
As china is ditching the controversial zero covid policy slowly it remains highly uncertain given China’s inaccurate vaccine coverage data, fragile health system, and the extent of infection
China is speeding up the effort to establish and expand intensive care clinics and build special clinics. Some of the hospitals are overwhelmed by the number of people turning up to them, some cities are even dealing with medicine and blood shortage
Even though the country is suffering from a severe economic as well as health situation. Some local governments continue to relax rules. This concerns the economists the most.
A major concern of economist is the impact of covid cases might have on factory outputs and logistics as the workers are falling ill
The world bank on Tuesday downgraded its China growth outlook for this year and next due to loosening of covid measures and other factors.
