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To: maceng2 who wrote (194950)	12/28/2022 11:17:17 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220169

Since The U.S and NATO ,The Middle East, India,ETC are all saying covid creaming China. Lets give it a few weeks before drawing any hard and fast conclusions. China ended reporting on corona following the U.S lead. Let each individual in the world decide the correct policy? LOL FUBAR BE VERY CAREFUL Emiily Feng could be friends and classmate of SBF and Carolyn Ellison also Gary Wang!! ASIA China has stopped publishing daily COVID data amid reports of a huge spike in cases FacebookTwitterFlipboardEmail December 25, 202210:34 AM ET ROBBIE GRIFFITHS Liang from Beijing, center, looks on as his 82-year-old grandmother is brought in a casket to the Gaobeidian Funeral Home in northern China's Hebei province on Dec. 22, 2022. Liang's grandmother had been unvaccinated when she came down with coronavirus symptoms, and had spent her final days hooked to a respirator in a Beijing ICU. AP China has stopped publishing daily COVID-19 data, adding to concerns that the country's leadership may be concealing negative information about the pandemic following the easing of restrictions. China's National Health Commission said in a statement that it would no longer publish the data daily beginning Sunday and that "from now on, the Chinese CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) will release relevant COVID information for reference and research." The NHC did not say why the change had been made and did not indicate how often the CDC would release data. China is experiencing a surge in new cases since restrictions were eased. In China's eastern Zhejiang province alone, the provincial government said it was experiencing about 1 million new daily cases. Meanwhile, Bloomberg and the Financial Times reported on a leaked estimate by top Chinese health officials that as many as 250 million people may have been infected in the first 20 days of December. GOATS AND SODA Fears of a 'dark COVID winter' in rural China grow as the holiday rush begins Despite the surge in cases, China has suspended most public testing booths, meaning there is no accurate public measure of the scale of infections across the country. Last week, Chinese health officials also defended the country's high threshold for determining whether a person died from COVID-19. Currently, China excludes anyone infected with COVID who died but who also had preexisting health conditions, and in the four days leading up to the health commission's decision to end publishing data, China reported zero COVID deaths. Last week, the World Health Organization warned that China may be "behind the curve" on reporting data, offering to help with collecting information. WHO Health Emergencies Program Executive Director Michael Ryan said, "In China, what's been reported is relatively low numbers of cases in ICUs, but anecdotally ICUs are filling up." Airfinity, a British health data firm, estimated last week that China's true COVID figures were a million infections and 5,000 deaths a day. On Friday, a health official in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province, said the city was seeing around 500,000 new COVID cases a day. The report was shared by news outlets, but then seemed to have been edited later to remove the figures. There has also reportedly been surge in need for crematoriums. China had earlier this month scrapped many of its very restrictive COVID measures following protests around the country that were critical of leadership. The demonstrations were sparked by deaths in a fire at an apartment block in the city of Urumqi in Xinjiang province, which killed at least 10 people. Some said the deaths could have been prevented if restrictions were less strict. In a recent briefing, the University of Washington's Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation forecast up to 1 million deaths in 2023 if China does not maintain social distancing policies. Many are concerned that celebrations during next month's Lunar New Year in China could become superspreader events. NPR's Emily Fang contributed to this report.

To: maceng2 who wrote (194950)	12/28/2022 10:28:10 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220169

US will require negative Covid tests for air passengers from China Italy also imposes restrictions after surge in cases following end of Beijing’s containment policy China is in the grip of an unprecedented wave of coronavirus cases © Kyodo/Reuters US will require negative Covid tests for air passengers from China Amy Kazmin and Stefania Palma in Rome 2 HOURS AGO The US said it would require negative Covid-19 tests for air passengers travelling from China as countries rushed to impose restrictions after the abrupt end of Beijing’s zero-Covid containment policy resulted in a surge in cases. Washington’s move on Wednesday came just hours after Italy announced it will test all air passengers arriving from China for the virus, becoming the first western country to set new rules in response to the jump in infections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that from January 5, travellers boarding flights to the US from China, Hong Kong and Macau would need a negative Covid test or proof they had recovered from a previous infection. The requirements also apply to passengers arriving in the US via a third country and to those connecting to other destinations through the US. The measures are intended to “slow the spread” of the virus in the US following the surge in China and are being implemented because of “the lack of adequate and transparent epidemiological and viral genomic sequence data being reported from” Beijing, the CDC said in a statement. The Chinese embassy in the US did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Orazio Schillaci, Italy’s health minister, on Wednesday said Rome’s restrictions were “essential to ensure surveillance and detection of possible variants of the virus in order to protect the Italian population”. Orazio Schillaci, Italy’s health minister © Alessia Pierdomenico/Bloomberg Speaking after a cabinet meeting, Schillaci urged the EU to impose a bloc-wide testing requirement, which he said Italy had written to the European Commission to request. “Many Chinese passengers come to Italy from Schengen countries,” he said, referring to the bloc’s free travel area. “It is obvious and important to involve European countries in the initiative.” , a health official from the Lombardy region told reporters. Italy is desperate to avoid a repeat of March 2020, when it became the first European country to face a serious outbreak of the virus that went on to sweep across the world and kill millions of people. Some Asian countries, including Japan and India, have also imposed new testing requirements for Chinese arrivals, in anticipation of a wave of visitors after President Xi Jinping’s government scrapped what was left of the zero-Covid regime that closed it off from the world for almost three years. Japan will limit arrivals from China, Hong Kong and Macau to four designated airports, in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, from Friday. China is in the grip of an unprecedented wave of the virus, with tens of millions of people being infected daily. At the same time, the end of zero- Covid has prompted an increase in demand for international travel since Beijing said on Boxing Day it would lift many measures from January 8. Travel booking site Trip.com said Chinese outbound bookings were up more than 250 per cent on Tuesday compared with a day earlier. There have been calls for other countries to impose restrictions. Jürgen Hardt, foreign affairs spokesperson for Germany’s opposition Christian Democrats, on Wednesday demanded a suspension of all flights from China to Germany. The “exploding Covid numbers in China threaten the whole world with a new wave of infections”, he told media group RND. “Only when we’re sure that there’s no threat of a new, dangerous mutation out of China should we resume flight connections.” Sebastian Gülde, spokesperson for the German health ministry, said authorities were “keeping a very close eye on the situation in China”. “But so far we have no indication that a more dangerous mutation is emerging from this outbreak.” That meant there was no reason to declare China a virus variant area, which would trigger travel restrictions on those arriving from the country. The UK also said it was not considering restrictions for travellers arriving from China. Additional reporting by Giuliana Ricozzi in Rome, Guy Chazan in Berlin and Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe in London