China’s Covid Czar Says Pandemic Cases Have Dropped to Low Level
- Remarks come ahead of busy Lunar New Year travel season
- Top officials proclaim a new stage in fight against pandemic
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China’s Covid-19 infections have fallen to a “relatively low” level, a top official said ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays, when hundreds of millions of Chinese will be in close contact with each other on the nation’s public transport systems and at festival gatherings.
China’s doing a good job in entering a new stage of the fight against Covid, and the process is “stable and orderly,” outgoing Vice Premier Sun Chunlan said during visits to hospitals in Beijing on January 19.