Chinese opera diva dies of Covid complications aged 40: “Virus to be taken seriously”

She died aged 40 due to complications from Covid-19 Chu Lanlan, opera singer from Beijing🇧🇷 The woman’s death was confirmed by local media in recent hours, after being reported on Chinese social media. weibo multiplied reports compared to a worsening of your condition.

One of his students pointed out that the virus actually aggravated an already compromised state of health due to previous pathologies🇧🇷 He had a 7 year old son. She also performed during the Olympic Games of 2008, when they happened in the Chinese capital. She was last seen in public in November.

The news was also relaunched by the epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding, who added: “Now are we finally going to get serious about the wave of Covid in China?”.

The reference is to the difficult situation in China after the government abandoned the strategy covid zero that followed since the beginning of the pandemic. Bad mass protests of recent weeks have forced us to take a step back.

Indeed, according to the epidemiologist Wu Zunyou, the country walks towards three waves of infectionswhich will take place in the winter season and which are linked to three events: the lifting of restrictions, the Chinese New Year holidays and the return to work after the holidays.

And the cnn published data from a new study conducted by three professors of Hong kong and released on Medrxiv according to which China’s abrupt departure from restrictions, with the farewell of lockdown🇧🇷 quarantines centralized, mass and rigorous testing tracings, could cause almost 1 million dead🇧🇷 “Increased infections would likely overwhelm many local health systems across the country,” the analysis reads.

This is because, according to scholars, the sudden suspension of measures does not follow the adoption of campaigns vaccination of the elderly or strengthening hospitalization capacities or increasing stocks of antivirals. Therefore, to avoid this catastrophic scenario, China should invest more in vaccines and antivirals.