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Will Omicron finally overpower China’s COVID defences?

The country needs to control the virus until it has boosted vaccination rates in elderly people and reinforced the health-care system.
  1. Dyani Lewis
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All eyes are on China as it attempts to quash its largest COVID-19 outbreaks since the early days of the pandemic. More than 62,000 people across all 31 of its provinces are infected, most of them with the fast-spreading BA.2 Omicron variant.

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Nature 604, 17-18 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00884-z

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  • Correction 30 March 2022: An earlier version of this story incorrectly attributed the rates of vaccination in people over 80 on the Chinese mainland to an Airfinity report rather than the Chinese government. This has been corrected.

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  1. McMenamin, E. et al. Preprint at medRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.22.22272769 (2022).

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