Eight in 10 people in China have been infected with COVID-19, a senior health official said last weekend.
"Secondary, it also shows an immunologically naive population provides no impediment to the virus. It spreads like wildfire, whether in the countryside or in the cities. It seems population density doesn't really matter."
A man wears headphones as he holds incense sticks while performing prayers for good fortune at Yonghegong, or the Lama Temple, for the Chinese Lunar New Year on January 22, 2023, in Beijing, China. China's explosive COVID-19 outbreak appears to be outpacing private-sector predictions and high estimates from its own specialists.
Airfinity, a British health analytics firm, said China was likely experiencing 4.55 million daily COVID infections and 35,780 daily deaths to the virus at the peak of the first wave. The spread of the pandemic has been hastened by the Lunar New Year holiday, adding more pressure to the country's health care system, it said in an updated report on Thursday.
The company estimated that China had seen 919,000 cumulative COVID deaths since December 1, a figure that could eventually reach 1.7 million by the end of the current wave. "It is not possible to predict or say how variants will mutate and emerge, but Omicron sub-lineages have dominated for approximately a year now, and if that continues, countries including China could see more waves this year," Tishya Venkatraman, an epidemiologists at Airfinity, told
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