China Warns Of New Covid Cases And Variants After WHO Issues Warning Of New Outbreaks

Prior to the United States allowing their public emergency status on Covid to expire, a week preceding the WHO also downgraded the threat level of Covid as well; but Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus did still warn that Covid could seriously reemerge into a greater threat potential again. “If need be, I will not hesitate to convene another Emergency Committee should COVID-19 once again put our world in peril,” Tedros said earlier this month.

More recently Tedros warned that “the threat of another variant emerging that causes new surges of disease and death remains,” and the “threat of another pathogen emerging with even deadlier potential remains.”

When the next pandemic comes knocking – and it will – we must be ready to answer decisively, collectively and equitably.
The Director-General added

And now just like clockwork it seems, officials in China have sounded the alarm to a new resurgence in Covid and variant that the media speculates could effect upwards of 65 million people, while at the same time the country is set to approve two new vaccines in the country.

For more details South China Morning Post has the story:

China will soon have two new vaccines to target the most dominant strains of Covid-19 in the country, according to Zhong Nanshan, one of the nation’s top respiratory disease experts.

Zhong told the Greater Bay Area Science Forum in Guangzhou on Monday that the vaccines targeting Omicron subvariants had received preliminary approval and were expected to be available soon.

As many as four other new vaccines were also expected to be approved soon, but he did not give further details about them or when they would be launched.

It was important to develop vaccines that offered better protection against highly infectious XBB strains, Zhong said, adding that “researching more effective vaccines is something we can be ahead of internationally”.

A World Health Organization advisory group has recommended that this year’s Covid-19 booster shots be updated to target XBB strains, according to a statement on Thursday.

XBB has recently fuelled a surge Covid-19 cases in China, with the proportion of those cases rising from 74.4 percent in late April to 83.6 percent in early May, according to the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The CDC confirmed the country’s first case of the XBB.1.5 subvariant in February. As of late April, 57 cases of XBB. 1.16 and its subvariants had been detected among local infections.

As immunity wanes, public worries about a resurgence of infections – and reinfections – have been growing after China was hit with a wave of Covid-19 last winter.

Xie Xiaoliang, a biophysical chemist and professor at Peking University, said China should brace for a second wave of infections next winter, while adding that the possibility of large-scale outbreaks in the near future remained small, the official Science and Technology Daily reported.

Global data shows that mutations of the virus can intermittently trigger multiple rounds of peaks in infections, roughly once every five months, so researchers need to be prepared for a possible peak in outbreaks this winter.
Xie was quoted as saying at an academic conference on Thursday.

On Monday, Zhong also acknowledged that there was a rise in Covid-19 cases in late April and early May, which had been “anticipated.”

ealth authorities expected to see another surge in Covid-19 cases this month and in June, with the wave expected to peak at about 40 million cases per week in late May and 65 million cases per week in late June, he said.

Experts watched the number of Covid-19 infections rise last month, as the percentage of people testing positive on PCR tests continued to grow. Health authorities warned of an “upward trend” in infections ahead of the five-day Labour Day holiday that started on April 29.

Before the spike, the percentage of positive cases among those tested had steadily fallen from a peak of 29.2 percent on December 25.

After the Chinese authorities abruptly scrapped their tough zero-Covid restrictions in December, Covid-19 surged across the country. Mass testing, along with the release of daily case numbers, were also abandoned.

AUTHOR COMMENTARY

How timely, right? The media be like: ‘Did you miss me?’

The Covid War is far as I am concerned is over and people are not going to care one bit. Some world authorities, health bodies, and media may try and reignite it here and there (mainly just to put out feelers), but it’s done from what I can tell. But never say never, so we’ll see where this goes.

But this is just more propaganda. I have lost count now how many times international media keeps calling XBB a “new” variant. Besides it being totally made-up, it’s not “new” when you keep reporting on it from a year ago.

But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Job 13:4

[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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