People are far too concerned with the potential of new and worrisome COVID variants evolving in China, one of the country’s top scientists said Wednesday. The Eastern superpower is currently experiencing some of the darkest days of the entire pandemic, with what is certainly the largest surge experienced by any country since the novel virus was discovered there in late 2019.
"The world should completely calm down from the fear that there are new variants or special variants circulating” in China, George Gao, professor at the Institute of Microbiology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and former head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told Reuters on Wednesday.
