Over the last few weeks, China’s COVID curve has shot straight up — the telltale sign of an Omicron outbreak.
China is by far the world’s biggest COVID powder keg — and it might be on the verge of exploding.reported more than about 200 coronavirus cases per day
For most of the last two years, mainland China has averaged fewer than 50 cases per day. According to official numbers, no one — not one of China’s 1.4 billion residents — has died of COVID since May 16, 2020. While the virus ravaged the rest of the globe, China claimed it basically vanished from its country of origin. Nationwide, new daily cases cleared 5,100 Tuesday for the first time ever; even in Feb.
It’s entirely possible, in other words, that Omicron — and its BA.2 subvariant, which is at least 30 percent more transmissible and appears to account for the bulk of new infections — has already triggered China’s worst outbreak to date. So far, at least 28 of the country’s 31 provinces and regions — including major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen — have reported new infections.
Hong Kong, however, has been a different story. The city also went with a zero COVID approach; until Omicron, it never recorded more than a handful of cases each day. Yet when Omicron finally hit, it hit hard, propelling new cases fromWorkers move coffins as mortuaries run short of coffins amid Shenzhen lockdown during the coronavirus disease pandemic in Hong Kong, China, March 16, 2022.
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