Covid in China, Shanghai doctors warn: “Prepare for a tragic battle after case boom”

More and more worried about the situation Covid in China, where, after abandoning the covid zero triggered by the government since the beginning of the pandemic, a violent wave of infections.

To the point that, as reported Reutersa hospital in Shanghai reportedly told its staff to prepare for a “tragic battle” against the virus, predicting that half of its population of 25 million could be infected by the end of next week due to its now uncontrolled circulation.

China’s official death toll since the start of the pandemic stands at 5,241, a much lower number than most other countries have faced, but it now appears to be rising sharply. In the last two days, no victims were registered, but the officials of the funeral Home state that the demand for their services has increased significantly in the last week, while official infections would be 389,306 with symptoms (data Reuters🇧🇷🇧🇷 as asymptomatic ones are no longer counted.

But as testing is no longer being carried out as before following the easing of measures, infections in Dragonland are likely to exceed million per day and deaths are more than 5,000 per day, according to data compiled by the Airfinitya London-based think tank.

If that were the case, the epidemiological research company predicts, the situation will only get worse in the coming weeks: cases could reach 3.7 million a day in Januaryand up to 4.2 million a day in March, out of a total population of 1.4 billion people.

“Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve and this year’s Lunar New Year will certainly not be safe,” Shanghai Private Hospital, which employs about 400 staff, wrote in a now-defunct WeChat post. Adding: “Everyone will be infected, we have no choice and we cannot escape.”

Even experts say China could face more than a million Covid deaths next year, data i full vaccination rate relatively low among vulnerable elderly population. The proportion of adults who received the booster dose was 57.9% and 42.3% for people aged 80 and over, government data show. In addition, the uncontrolled circulation of the virus, warned the WHO, could also be dangerous for the development of new and possible variants🇧🇷