Beijing Has Hit 'Temporary Herd Immunity': China Health Official
NDTV
A torrent of cases has cascaded through the world's most populous nation since the ruling Communist Party abruptly ended its zero-Covid policy last month.
Beijing has reached "temporary herd immunity" and its Covid outbreak is nearing an end, a city health official said Tuesday, in another sign China's unprecedented virus wave is waning.
A torrent of cases has cascaded through the world's most populous nation since the ruling Communist Party abruptly ended its zero-Covid policy last month.
The surge packed hospitals and crematoriums in major cities including Beijing, though the scale of the outbreak is hard to verify given that official data is believed to represent a tiny fraction of the true number of cases.
But there have been indications that the surge has started to tail off, with authorities saying last week that the number of daily Covid deaths nationwide had fallen by nearly 80 percent since the start of January.
