
China prepares to face down Omicron
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Is China a Good Place to Start?
All 13 million residents of one northern chinese shian were ordered to stay at home after 52 new cases were found. New studies suggests that the main sinopam and sinovac vaccines may be of relatively limited effectiveness in protecting citizens from this new variant. Nicholas thomas is an associate professor at city university in hong kong, where he searches international health security issues. They are starting from a good position in that they don't have a lot of community base transmissions anywhere at the moment. Now, the challenge for china going forward is both omnicronosa delta becoming endemic in the countries around china, and china's borders can sometimes be quite porous in terms of population
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