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COVID in China: Half of Shanghai's population of 25 million 'could be infected by end of next week'

HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,862
edited December 2022 in The Rail
: 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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  • VespaPXVespaPX Member Posts: 12,400
    Remember all the fake video's out of China at the start of all this?
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,862
    VespaPX said:

    Remember all the fake video's out of China at the start of all this?

    COVID in China: Half of Shanghai's population of 25 million 'could be infected by end of next week'


    https://uk.yahoo.com/news/covid-china-half-shanghais-population-104300679.html
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,669

    Catastrophic news. Tough times ahead for the Chinese people.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,862
    Tikay10 said:


    Catastrophic news. Tough times ahead for the Chinese people.

    Experts say China could face more than a million COVID deaths next year, given relatively low full vaccination rates among its vulnerable elderly population.

    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.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,862
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,669

    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.
  • VespaPXVespaPX Member Posts: 12,400
  • VespaPXVespaPX Member Posts: 12,400
    Lockdowns and masks, etc didn't work then.....
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,862
    How the sudden lifting of China's zero Covid policy has plunged country into terrifying turmoil: More than 250 million infected, morgues flooded with corpses yet the Communist dictatorship insists deaths are as low as one a day, writes IAN BIRRELL



    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
  • PaintedOnePaintedOne Member Posts: 236
    their immune systems have been destroyed by the vaccines , just like in this country and all over the world , they are dropping like flies .

    MUGS for believing the men in suits
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