Beijing: After China eased the zero-COVID regulations, there has been a dramatic increase in coronavirus infections in China. Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist and health economist, tweeted that hospitals are overburdened.
The epidemiologist predicts that within the next 90 days, more than 60% of China and 10% of the global population are likely to contract the disease, with millions of fatalities expected.
R is equal to 16 for the current Omicron model. Every time someone contracts the infection, 16 more people do as well, he continued.
According to media sources, five fatalities and 2,722 new symptomatic coronavirus infections were recorded in China on Monday. According to a story from India Today, hospitals are overflowing with COVID patients, and numerous cities’ crematoriums are overflowing with dead.
Christopher Murray, the director of IHME, predicted that the number of COVID-19 cases in China will reach a peak around April 1 and surpass 322,000 fatalities. By then, a third of the Chinese population would have contracted the disease.
After an enormous public uproar, China abolished the strictest COVID restrictions in the world on December 7.
