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Coronavirus Surge After Relaxing ‘Zero COVID’ Strategy in China

China faces a potentially massive surge in coronavirus as it moves away from strict containment measures, with reports of long lines at fever clinics, drug shortages and hoarding across the country. However, considering that it does not account for asymptomatic infections, which China's National Health Commission announced on Wednesday that it would no longer track, that number is a significant under count of the actual number of cases. In a notice, the commission stated, "It is impossible to accurately grasp the actual number of asymptomatic infections." Wu Zunyou, China's chief epidemiologist, claims that the country is currently in the first of three anticipated waves of COVID cases this winter. If people return to their home areas via mass transit for the Lunar New Year holiday next month, as is typical, cases could multiply across the nation. Since China abruptly lifted the majority of restrictions essential to a zero-tolerance policy against COVID on Decem...