‘Covid-19 kept at bay’

Feeding a need: Covid testing booths transformed into food stalls in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China. In 2022, thousands of testing booths were erected across China, with the goal of having residents always just a 15-minute walk away from a swabbing station. With the abrupt end of Covid-Zero in December, cities are left with the problem of what to do with these modular buildings.  — Bloomberg

MOST people in China are safe from the spread of Covid-19 due to widespread vaccinations and natural immunity, but uncertainties remain about what will happen down the road, according to Zeng Guang, former chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Some 80 to 90 percent of people in China have acquired herd immunity for Covid-19 in the wake of the Omicron outbreaks since December, said the senior medical expert in an interview with People’s Daily on Wednesday.