With the wave of travel for the Chinese New Year celebrations in late January, the corona virus is expected to spread significantly in China. According to a study by Chinese experts, the wave of contagion in metropolitan areas such as Beijing and Shanghai has already passed its peak. But the violent outbreak will also affect China’s central and western provinces and rural areas by the end of the month, according to Frontiers of Medicine.
concern for the elderly
The duration and scope of the next outbreak in the provinces and inland could be “dramatically extended” by extensive travel for the Lunar New Year on January 22, the study says. Millions traditionally travel to their home villages for the most important Chinese family festival.
The new wave of infections in small and medium-sized cities and rural areas is viewed with concern because many elderly people live there and medical care is often inadequate.
Eruption can last until April
Just a month after the end of the strict Covid-zero strategy that China had been following for nearly three years, several hundred million people in China have already been infected with the virus. The huge outbreak is expected to last until March or April. Exact numbers are not available because authorities have stopped publishing epidemiological data.