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Michael Ejercito
Dec 19, 2022, 8:04:40 AM12/19/22
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Streets deserted in China's cities as new COVID surge looms
By Siyi Liu and Eduardo Baptista
Beijing residents receive nasal spray COVID-19 vaccine boosters
[1/4] A health worker registers a resident for a nasal spray COVID-19
booster vaccine in Beijing, China December 17, 2022 in this still image
obtained from a video. REUTERS TV/via REUTERS
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Summary
People take steps to protect themselves after curbs lifted
Senior official predicts three waves this winter
Lunar New Year in January to drive further spread
BEIJING, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Streets in major Chinese cities were eerily
quiet on Sunday as people stayed home to protect themselves from a surge
in COVID-19 cases that has hit urban centres from north to south.
China is in the first of an expected three waves of COVID cases this
winter, according to the country's chief epidemiologist, Wu Zunyou.
Further waves will come as people follow the tradition of returning en
masse to their home areas for the Lunar New Year holiday next month, he
said.
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China has not reported any COVID deaths since Dec. 7, when it abruptly
ended most restrictions key to a zero-COVID tolerance policy following
unprecedented public protests. The strategy had been championed by
President Xi Jinping.
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As part of the easing of the zero-COVID curbs, mass testing for the
virus has ended, casting doubt on whether official case numbers can
capture the full scale of the outbreak. China reported some 2,097 new
symptomatic COVID infections on Dec. 17.
Latest Updates
Beijing funeral homes, crematoriums busy as COVID spreads
China November aluminium imports fall amid rising domestic supply
China to maintain ample liquidity in 2023 to implement proactive fiscal
policy, state media report
Taiwan to fine Foxconn for unauthorised China investment
In Beijing, the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant has
already hit services from catering to parcel deliveries. Funeral homes
and crematoriums across the city of 22 million are also struggling to
keep up with demand amid staff shortages as workers and drivers call in
sick.
At Beijing's largest funeral parlour in Babaoshan, also known for
handling the bodies of top Chinese officials and leaders, several
hearses a minute could be seen entering on Sunday, while the parking
area for private cars was also full.
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"Right now it is difficult to book a hearse so many relatives transport
the body with their own vehicles," said an employee on condition of
anonymity.
Smoke billowed out of crematoriums, where groups of people were gathered
to collect the ashes of the deceased. It was not immediately clear to
what extent a rise in COVID-related deaths was responsible.
Social media posts also showed empty subways in the city of Xian in
China's northwest, while in Shanghai, the country's commercial hub,
there was none of the usual bustle in the run up to the New Year.
"Festive vibes are missing," said a resident who gave her name as Alice.
In Chengdu, streets were deserted but food delivery times were
improving, said a resident surnamed Zhang, after services began to adapt
to the recent surge in cases.
Getting hold of antigen test kits was still difficult however, she said,
explaining that she had been told the kits she ordered recently had been
diverted to hospitals.
'1 PEAK, 3 WAVES, 3 MONTHS'
In Shanghai, authorities said schools should move most classes online
from Monday, and in nearby Hangzhou most school grades were encouraged
to finish the winter semester early.
In Guangzhou, those already doing online class as well as pre-schoolers
should not prepare for a return to school, said the education bureau.
Speaking at a conference in Beijing on Saturday, chief epidemiologist Wu
of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said the
current outbreak would peak this winter and run in three waves for about
three months, according to a state media report of his speech.
The first wave would run from mid-December through mid-January, largely
in cities, before a second wave would start from late January to
mid-February next year, triggered by the movement of people ahead of the
week-long New Year holiday.
China will celebrate Lunar New Year starting on Jan. 21. The holiday
normally sees hundreds of millions of people travelling home to spend
time with family.
A third wave of cases would run from late February to mid-March as
people returned to work after the holiday, Wu said.
In eastern Zhejiang province, home to many high-tech companies and
industry, the first wave is expected to peak around mid-January, though
it could be earlier, health officials told a press briefing on Sunday.
"This period coincides with the Lunar New Year, and population movement
will speed up the spread of the epidemic," said Chen Zhong, executive
deputy director of the provincial epidemic control taskforce.
A U.S.-based research institute said this week that the country could
see an explosion of cases and over a million people in China could die
of COVID in 2023.
Wu said severe cases had declined compared with past years and
vaccination had offered a certain degree of protection. The vulnerable
should be protected, he said, while recommending booster vaccines for
the general public.
While China rolled out its first COVID vaccines in 2021, vaccination
rates among people aged 60 and above have remained little changed since
the summer, according to official figures.
Only 66.4% of people over the age of 80 have completed a full course of
vaccination, official news agency Xinhua reported.
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Reporting by Siyi Liu, Dominique Patton, Ryan Woo, Eduardo Baptista and
Brenda Goh; Editing by Kenneth Maxwell and Philippa Fletcher
Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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Streets deserted in China's cities as new COVID surge looms
By Siyi Liu and Eduardo Baptista
Beijing residents receive nasal spray COVID-19 vaccine boosters
[1/4] A health worker registers a resident for a nasal spray COVID-19
booster vaccine in Beijing, China December 17, 2022 in this still image
obtained from a video. REUTERS TV/via REUTERS
Read more
1
2
3
4
Summary
People take steps to protect themselves after curbs lifted
Senior official predicts three waves this winter
Lunar New Year in January to drive further spread
BEIJING, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Streets in major Chinese cities were eerily
quiet on Sunday as people stayed home to protect themselves from a surge
in COVID-19 cases that has hit urban centres from north to south.
China is in the first of an expected three waves of COVID cases this
winter, according to the country's chief epidemiologist, Wu Zunyou.
Further waves will come as people follow the tradition of returning en
masse to their home areas for the Lunar New Year holiday next month, he
said.
Advertisement · Scroll to continue
China has not reported any COVID deaths since Dec. 7, when it abruptly
ended most restrictions key to a zero-COVID tolerance policy following
unprecedented public protests. The strategy had been championed by
President Xi Jinping.
article-prompt-devices
Register for free to Reuters and know the full story
Register now
As part of the easing of the zero-COVID curbs, mass testing for the
virus has ended, casting doubt on whether official case numbers can
capture the full scale of the outbreak. China reported some 2,097 new
symptomatic COVID infections on Dec. 17.
Latest Updates
Beijing funeral homes, crematoriums busy as COVID spreads
China November aluminium imports fall amid rising domestic supply
China to maintain ample liquidity in 2023 to implement proactive fiscal
policy, state media report
Taiwan to fine Foxconn for unauthorised China investment
In Beijing, the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant has
already hit services from catering to parcel deliveries. Funeral homes
and crematoriums across the city of 22 million are also struggling to
keep up with demand amid staff shortages as workers and drivers call in
sick.
At Beijing's largest funeral parlour in Babaoshan, also known for
handling the bodies of top Chinese officials and leaders, several
hearses a minute could be seen entering on Sunday, while the parking
area for private cars was also full.
Advertisement · Scroll to continue
"Right now it is difficult to book a hearse so many relatives transport
the body with their own vehicles," said an employee on condition of
anonymity.
Smoke billowed out of crematoriums, where groups of people were gathered
to collect the ashes of the deceased. It was not immediately clear to
what extent a rise in COVID-related deaths was responsible.
Social media posts also showed empty subways in the city of Xian in
China's northwest, while in Shanghai, the country's commercial hub,
there was none of the usual bustle in the run up to the New Year.
"Festive vibes are missing," said a resident who gave her name as Alice.
In Chengdu, streets were deserted but food delivery times were
improving, said a resident surnamed Zhang, after services began to adapt
to the recent surge in cases.
Getting hold of antigen test kits was still difficult however, she said,
explaining that she had been told the kits she ordered recently had been
diverted to hospitals.
'1 PEAK, 3 WAVES, 3 MONTHS'
In Shanghai, authorities said schools should move most classes online
from Monday, and in nearby Hangzhou most school grades were encouraged
to finish the winter semester early.
In Guangzhou, those already doing online class as well as pre-schoolers
should not prepare for a return to school, said the education bureau.
Speaking at a conference in Beijing on Saturday, chief epidemiologist Wu
of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said the
current outbreak would peak this winter and run in three waves for about
three months, according to a state media report of his speech.
The first wave would run from mid-December through mid-January, largely
in cities, before a second wave would start from late January to
mid-February next year, triggered by the movement of people ahead of the
week-long New Year holiday.
China will celebrate Lunar New Year starting on Jan. 21. The holiday
normally sees hundreds of millions of people travelling home to spend
time with family.
A third wave of cases would run from late February to mid-March as
people returned to work after the holiday, Wu said.
In eastern Zhejiang province, home to many high-tech companies and
industry, the first wave is expected to peak around mid-January, though
it could be earlier, health officials told a press briefing on Sunday.
"This period coincides with the Lunar New Year, and population movement
will speed up the spread of the epidemic," said Chen Zhong, executive
deputy director of the provincial epidemic control taskforce.
A U.S.-based research institute said this week that the country could
see an explosion of cases and over a million people in China could die
of COVID in 2023.
Wu said severe cases had declined compared with past years and
vaccination had offered a certain degree of protection. The vulnerable
should be protected, he said, while recommending booster vaccines for
the general public.
While China rolled out its first COVID vaccines in 2021, vaccination
rates among people aged 60 and above have remained little changed since
the summer, according to official figures.
Only 66.4% of people over the age of 80 have completed a full course of
vaccination, official news agency Xinhua reported.
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Reporting by Siyi Liu, Dominique Patton, Ryan Woo, Eduardo Baptista and
Brenda Goh; Editing by Kenneth Maxwell and Philippa Fletcher
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HeartDoc Andrew
Dec 19, 2022, 10:32:40 AM12/19/22
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China & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19
) finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,
HeartDoc Andrew <><
--
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Cardiologist with an http://bit.ly/EternalMedicalLicense
2024 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
http://WonderfullyHungry.org
and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrewCare
which is the only **healthy** cure for the U.S. healthcare crisis
Michael Ejercito
Dec 21, 2022, 8:18:22 AM12/21/22
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Michael
HeartDoc Andrew
Dec 21, 2022, 8:38:21 AM12/21/22
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Michael Ejercito wrote:
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward
(John 15:12 as shown by http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest ) with all
glory ( http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba,
DEO), in the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ
Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrew touts hunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory
( http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD, Who causes us to hunger
(Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby
removing the http://tinyurl.com/HeartVAT from around the heart
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward
(John 15:12 as shown by http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest ) with all
glory ( http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba,
DEO), in the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ
Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrew touts hunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory
( http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD, Who causes us to hunger
(Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby
removing the http://tinyurl.com/HeartVAT from around the heart
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