China's leading public health experts are expecting the country's first nationwide wave to peak in a month's time.
could return to pre-pandemic levels by the middle of next year, one of the country's leading public health experts predicted as Beijing continued to replace old warnings about the virus with new assurances., also dismissed modeling that pointed to the possibility of mass deaths in the coming winter months as China faces its first nationwide wave three years into the pandemic.
China was shifting its focus from containing infections to preventing severe cases, Zhong said, predicting the coming wave would peak between mid-January and mid-February. China's national health authority said in November that more than 90 percent of the country's 1.4 billion people had received a full course—two doses—of a COVID vaccine. However, several, accounting for the lack of natural immunity among the population, projected hundreds of millions of infections and upward of 1 million deaths in the coming wave.
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