CHINA CLAIMS “MAJOR CONCLUSIVE TRIUMPH” OVER CORONAVIRUS

Fri 24 February 2023:

The detection of positive Covid cases has dropped, according to Chinese health officials, who also claimed that the pandemic had “basically” ended.

The authorities, speaking at a news event, assured that China’s “major conclusive triumph” over the coronavirus has set an example of counteraction and control for populous nations, as reported by the news agency Reuters.

China’s top chiefs proclaimed a “definitive triumph” over Coronavirus last year. The authority likewise guaranteed that China has the world’s most reduced casualty rate. Notwithstanding, information given by the Chinese specialists has been addressed by specialists.

The claims, nonetheless, sound inconsistent to news reports which claimed that various schools across China halted classes recently to check the spread of the lethal infection and different microbes like influenza to the norovirus.

A Bloomberg report noticed that ten second-graders in a similar class tested positive for Coronavirus on quick antigen tests last weekend in the eastern web based business center point Hangzhou.

The detection of positive cases caused panic and the local education authorities were forced to suspend their class for four days starting Monday. As quoted by the report, the officials said the students were likely infected for the first time.

Besides Hangzhou, in-person teaching was suspended in Shanghai’s elementary school class after four students were diagnosed with the flu and others developed similar symptoms.

Several schools in the Zhejiang province, Beijing, and Tianjin all reported having flu cases. The report states that the following class was discontinued.

The health authorities in China discovered seven imported cases of the extremely contagious XBB.1.5 strain since January 8, according to a Reuters report.

At the press conference on Thursday, health officials stated that they are ready in advance for any Covid outbreaks, having increased their staff from 198,000 to 404,000 in anticipation of the virus spreading to rural areas.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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