World Health Organisation (WHO) had announced that Covid-19 pandemic is no more an ‘emergency’. China's latest surge has been fueled by the latest XBB variant.
The surge is being driven from last April, and is expected to result in 40 million infections a week by the end of May, before peaking at 65 million a month later.
The local news outlet cited a presentation by respiratory disease specialist Zhong Nanshan at a biotech conference in the southern city of Guangzhou.
His estimate provides rare insight into how the much anticipated second wave may play out, with immunity among the country’s 1.4 billion residents waning nearly six months after Beijing’s sudden dismantling of Covid Zero curbs saw coronavirus run rampant.