Shanghai: China’s “zero-covid” attitude has continued with the whole world and demands increased economic victims, but the outgoing strategy is still difficult to worry about by the authority about the ability of health care systems to overcome and adapt to new strains.
Chinese medical experts believe last year that higher vaccination rates will eventually allow China to calm the difficult rules on movement and testing as a slower level of infection elsewhere.
The emergence of an omicron variant that is very contagious destroys that hope.
While some analysts have a Chinese approach as “unsustainable”, many local health experts – and some from abroad – say the country has no choice but to continue remembering its poor health system.
Some even think China’s economy can even appear stronger than before if it makes Omicron at Bay.
“For a large country with a 1.4 billion population, it must be said that the effectiveness of our country’s prevention and control costs is very high,” said Liang Wannian, head of the expert epidemic prevention group at the Chinese National Health Commission, on Saturday briefing.
Georgieva Crystalina, Director of Implementing International Monetary Fund, asked China last week to “reassess” its approach, saying it is now a “burden” in the Chinese and global economy.
But China is worried that the cost of reducing its defense can be proven to be higher, especially with a health care system that has traced its broader development.
“With a large population and high density the government is truly worried about the impact on the spread of the virus,” Jaya Dantas, International Health Professor at the Curtin Health School of Population in Perth, Australia.
China has 4.7 million nurse registered at the end of 2020, or 3.35 per 1,000 people, official data shows.
The United States has around 3 million – around 9 per 1,000.
China is also aware of the risk of a new variant, especially because it refuses to import foreign vaccines.
The study showed China’s vaccine was less effective against Omicron and had not launched the MRNA version itself.
Wu Zunyou, head of epidemiology at the center of control and prevention of China, warns that “dangerous” omikron can still cause an increase in absolute deaths even if it is proven to be less deadly, and China must stay patient.
“China’s medical capacity and medical standards are not as good as Britain or the United States, but the results of prevention and control of China’s coronavirus remote, far superior,” he said in a weekend interview with Beijing news.
‘Premature optimism’ China has increased its health warnings, urging residents to ignore claims that Omicron is no more serious than flu and to remain vigilant.
On Wednesday, The Global Times, published by the official people every day, also attacked in foreign media to “mock the” policy “of China, said they saved lives.
Foreign criticism is” based on unfounded or premature optimism regarding the end of the pandemic ” , he added.
Experts in China and abroad have also doubted hope that Omicron represents the final stage of the pandemic.
“SARS-COV-2 will not miraculously turn into endemic infections such as malaria where the level remains constant for a long time,” said Raina Macintyre, Head of the Biosecurity Research Program at the University of New South Wales’ Kirby Institute.
“This will continue to cause epidemic waves, driven by reduced vaccine immunity, new variants that run away from vaccine protection, bags, births and migration that are not vaccinated,” he told Reuters.
End-Chinese economic game is estimated to be slow due to covid-related supply disorders, while locking for M Domestic outbreaks weigh on travel and consumption.
The “zero-covid” approach Hong Kong has placed the city controlled by China Selort with other global financial centers and struck its economy.
However, China’s economy remained strong, with GDP growth at 8.1% last year, far exceeded expectations.
Macintyre from the Kirby Institute said it was not “binary option” between opening and isolated, adding that “no need to give up on the virus, as Australia did today.” China can still arise from the crisis in the strongest position, especially if Covid leads to extensive cognitive disorders, organ damage and other long-term conditions in other countries, he said.
“If China makes viruses mostly under control, their population will be fit and healthy to the future, while the United States and Europe will groan under the burden of unprecedented chronic diseases.”
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