Corona Virus
13 Feb 2023A massive wave of infection that struck more than a billion people in China in around a month late last year after it abruptly abandoned its zero-Covid strategy has waned, with experts now expecting a succession of smaller, less severe waves. But as vaccination momentum declines, some remain concerned about the susceptibility of elderly people to increasingly transmissible variants of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19. Demand for treatment at Chinese fever clinics peaked on December 23 and remained at a low level late last month, according to official statistics, while the number of Covid-19 patients admitted to hospitals peaked on January 5 and had since declined consistently.
