'The world should completely calm down from the fear that there are new variants or special variants circulating (in China),' says a professor at the Institute of Microbiology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
HONG KONG – The world should “calm down” about the possibility of new COVID-19 variants circulating in China, leading Chinese scientist George Gao said.medical journal on Wednesday, February 8, showed that no new variants had emerged in the initial weeks of China’s recent outbreak, after the end of its zero-COVID policy saw a huge wave of cases.
The study analyzed 413 new COVID cases in Beijing from November 14 to December 20, 2022 and found all were likely caused by existing strains. It found that 90% of the majority-locally acquired infections were due to the above two sub-variants. A prominent government scientist said on January 21 that 80% of people had been infected already and China’s CDC has said repeatedly in the past month that continuous monitoring showed no new strains of COVID-19 have been found.
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