The peaks of COVID-19 infections have passed in some Chinese cities including Beijing, Tianjin and Chengdu, a health expert said on Thursday.
Noting the time difference that each province or area enters different stages, Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told a press briefing by the State Council Information Office that the epidemic situation across the country is not peaking all at once.
The COVID-19 situations in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Chengdu-Chongqing region and some provinces in central China developed relatively early, Wu said.
He said the COVID-19 situations in Shanghai, Chongqing, Anhui, Hubei and Hunan are currently developing at a high level, and at a relatively fast pace in Henan, Jilin and Fujian.
The expert explained that the virus spreads relatively fast in large and medium-sized cities due to large and dense populations, but spreads in a lagged manner in small and medium-sized cities.
He said all localities have stepped up their monitoring, analysis and assessment of their local epidemic situations, and are striving to minimize the impact of COVID-19 peaks and the epidemic in general on people’s work and lives.
Wu said vaccinating against COVID-19 is still an important measure to contain the epidemic.
