The government of China It recommended its citizens not to visit the elderly for the lunar new year, the most important holiday in the Asian nation, after a resurgence of COVID 19 that started at the end of last year. Although the peaks of this disease seem to have stayed in the previous weeks, Health officials are afraid that travel to rural areas will worsen the situation in these areas.
Guo Jiawen, a council member state of pandemic prevention, told people to “please do not visit the elderly” if they have not already been infected. “There are all kinds of ways to show that you love them, you don’t need to bring the virus home,” the specialist told the residents of China.
This holiday vacation will begin on January 21 and meant the return of the festivities and the travel released after most of the restrictions raised at the time are lifted. Nevertheless, the end of the “Covid Zero” policies gave the effect that the Xi Jinping government most feared: several new waves of infected in China.
Dr Chen Xi, an assistant professor specializing in aging and public health at Yale, told The Guardian that “the situation in the China rural is very complex. We have several reasons to believe that as the spring festival approaches, everything will get worse.” It is worth clarifying that a report by Al Jazeera also highlighted that several elderly people living in the city ended up moving to the countryside with relatives as the disease spread through the city.
not vaccinated
Although the majority of citizens of the Asian giant are vaccinated, there are two problems that arise at the level that this cure is distributed throughout the country: the quality of the sera is inferior to those made with MRNA and many of the elderly are not immunized.
It is the second item that further complicates the Beijing government, in part, because the vaccine was originally given to essential workers, which left many of the elderly vulnerable, added to the fact that some of these or their relatives do not want to be vaccinated for fear of getting sick.
