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China faces 'thermonuclear' wave of Covid Warning virus may kill up to ONE MILLION people as the sick overwhelm hospitals and dead bodies pile up outside morgues - after Beijing reversed its draconian restrictions China's decision to stick with draconian restrictions for so long is to blame for the 'thermonuclear' Covid wave that could kill up to a million people, experts warned today. Startling projections since Beijing U-turned on its tough zero Covid stance suggest hundreds of thousands will die in the coming months because of low immunity across the country's 1.4billion population. Immunologists predict up to 60 per cent of the country will get infected between now and March, as the virus is allowed to rip.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11561611/Chinas-Covid-capitulation-draconian-hermit-strategy.html
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Catastrophic news. Tough times ahead for the Chinese people.
China's vaccination rate is above 90%, but the rate for adults who have received booster shots drops to 57.9%, and to 42.3% for people aged 80 and above, government data shows.
Authorities confirmed 389,306 cases with symptoms, but some experts say official figures have become an unreliable guide as less testing is being done following the easing of restrictions.
Infections in China are likely to be more than a million a day with deaths at more than 5,000 a day, a "stark contrast" from official data, British-based health data firm Airfinity said this week.
At a hospital in Beijing, footage from state television CCTV showed rows of elderly patients in the intensive care unit breathing through oxygen masks. It was unclear how many had COVID.
The deputy director of the hospital's emergency department, Han Xue, told CCTV they were receiving 400 patients a day, four times more than usual.
This fresh wave in China is a catastrophe for China, & it's people, plus of course there will be all sorts of knock-on effects for the rest of the world, including us.
I don't even want to think about the worst-case scenario here.
IAN BIRRELL: Astonishing leaked figures from Chinese health authorities estimate that 250 million people - almost one in five citizens - caught Covid in the first 20 days of last month after President Xi Jinping abruptly dismantled rigid restrictions imposed since 2020. Having enforced the world's strictest controls with ruthless lockdowns, relentless testing and rigid mass quarantines, Xi was panicked into making a humiliating about-turn on December 7 after a spate of protests. With a fragile health system and inadequate vaccination rates, the impact was instant and predictable. One hospital in Shanghai warned that half the 26 million residents of the country's most populous city will be infected by now and urged staff to prepare for a 'tragic battle' in the coming weeks.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11590509/IAN-BIRREL-sudden-lifting-Chinas-zero-Covid-policy-plunged-country-turmoil.html
MUGS for believing the men in suits