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 Jan. 19.
Sun’s comments come after her colleague Liu He told an audience of international billionaires and bankers in Davos, Switzerland, this week that the peak of infections had passed. China’s President Xi Jinping also said the country’s COVID fight has entered a new stage with “dawn being just ahead.”
