After 80 percent infected, another covid wave remote in the nation: China

Beijing: China on Saturday dismissed possibility of another wave of Covid infections in the country over the next two or three months, Reuters reported.

A prominent scientist in the country attributed the reasoning to the fact that 80 percent of the people have been infected.

Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said people traveling during Lunar New Year holiday could boost infections in some areas, according to the report.

He added on the Weibo social media platform that second Covid wave is unlikely in the near future despite people travelling.

Hundreds of millions of people travelling across the country for holiday has raised fears of fresh outbreaks in rural areas that are less equipped for larger outbreaks.

Meanwhile, a National Health Commission official claimed the nation passed the peak of cases in fever clinics, emergency rooms with critical conditions.

China has been struggling for long with frequent outbreak of infections that forced authorities to introduced strict Zero Covid policy.

There were reports of people violently confronting enforcement officials during lockdowns before protests erupted in several places in the nation.

The government eventually opened the nation withdrawing zero-covid policy, which subsequently led to deaths of nearly 60,000 in hospitals as of January 12.

Some experts however argue that these numbers, given by the government, give only partial impact as it excluded deaths at home.

Reports say that many doctors have said they were discouraged from labeling Covid as a cause of death.