The immunologist confirmed that 70 and 75% of the population of Shanghai and Beijing had been infected with Covid-19 since the lifting of the “zero Covid” strategy in China.
The president of the Committee for monitoring and anticipating health risks (Covars), formerly the Scientific Council, reacted this Tuesday evening on BFMTV to the explosion of positive cases of Covid-19 in China since the lifting of very strict health restrictions.
“It’s a disaster, an epidemic of terrible magnitude,” lamented Brigitte Autran.
At the start of the coronavirus epidemic, China had implemented a “zero Covid” strategy, which it almost completely abandoned at the beginning of December. By doing this, “China has opened Pandora’s box”, according to the immunologist, and proved that its strategy “does not work”.
The peak already reached?
While scientists, such as virologist Christian Bréchot, speak of “200 to 300 million infections in a few weeks”, Brigitte Autran confirmed that 70% of the population of Shanghai and 75% of that of Beijing had already contracted the virus. since early December.
This impressive proportion tends to reassure the president of Covars. “The epidemic is progressing so quickly that it will soon resolve itself,” she said on our antenna. Especially since “the sub-variants circulating in China are the same as here”.
Moreover, France and other countries in the world have decided to introduce a screening test for all travelers coming from China to better understand the mutations of the virus. “The objective is not to prevent the virus from entering the territory, it is an illusion”, she clarified.
