China braces for new wave of XBB .1.5 Covid variant, could see 65 million cases weekly

 

China braces for new wave of XBB .1.5 Covid variant, could see 65 million cases weekly

By the end of June, China could report 65 million coronavirus cases in a week. The country has started preparations to handle the resurgence in cases, with new Covid vaccines which will target XBB variants in the pipeline.

China is bracing for a massive wave of coronavirus cases, Bloomberg reported citing a senior health adviser. The new wave of the pandemic would likely witness a peak towards the end of June, with the country likely to report around 65 millions infections weekly.

China has witnessed a surge in Covid cases, fueled by Omicron variant XBB, since April. By the end of this month, the country is likely to report 40 million infections in a week, before peaking at 65 million weekly by the end of June, as per local media reports which cited a presentation by respiratory disease specialist Zhong Nanshan at a biotech conference in the southern city of Guangzhou.

In the United States, XBB.1.5 now accounts for more than 40 percent of COVID-19 cases, sharply rising from 2 percent in the first week of December. It is now US’s second-most dominant strain.

The XBB.1.5, which is a descendant of the Omicron XBB subvariant, has started to rise in parts of Europe, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

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