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China Covid: Health expert predicts three winter waves

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  IMAGE SOURCE, GETTY IMAGES Image caption, China has been experiencing a surge in Covid cases since many restrictions were eased earlier this month By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News A top Chinese health official says he believes China is experiencing the first of three expected waves of Covid infections this winter. The nation is seeing a flood in cases since the lifting of its most extreme limitations recently. The most recent authority figures seem to show a generally low number of new day to day cases. Nonetheless, there are worries that these numbers are a misjudge because of a new decrease in Coronavirus testing. The public authority announced just 2,097 new everyday cases on Sunday. Disease transmission expert Wu Zunyou has said he accepts the flow spike in contaminations would run until mid-January, while the subsequent wave would then be set off by mass travel in January around the extended Lunar New Year festivities which start on 21 January. A huge number of individuals norm...