China said on Monday that the COVID-19 situation in the country was at a 'low level', and that fever clinic visits due to the coronavirus during the Lunar New Year dropped about 40% from before the week-long holiday
A person wearing a protective suit sits in Beijing Railway Station as passengers wait to board a train to travel for Spring Festival ahead of Chinese Lunar New Year festivities after China lifted its COVID-19 restrictions in Beijing, January 20, 2023. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo
"The overall epidemic situation in the country has entered a low level, and the epidemic situation in various places has maintained a steady downward trend," National Health Commission spokesperson Mi Feng told a media briefing on Monday . Passenger trips during the annual travel rush period reached 892 million between Jan. 7 and Jan. 29, up 56% from 2022, a transport ministry official told reporters, but down 46.9% from the same period in 2019.
Some experts had warned that Lunar New Year travel, known before the pandemic as the world's largest migration of people, would trigger a wave of infections in rural areas less equipped to deal with them.
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