China Covid Infections Hit 3-Month High

China reported 2,181 new Covid cases on Saturday, with infections surging to a three month high. Tourist destinations are the ones getting hit now which makes sense since the current variant evades things like vaccines, past infection antibodies, and even fantasies like Zero-Covid. As we expected, China’s decision to strand everyone on the Southern Island of Hainan had the opposite effect, as they cannot get their outbreak under control with another 1,100 cases reported Saturday. If it is like the other places that have seen an outbreak, a good 20% will have to test positive before the peak is reached so it shouldn’t be long now. Tibet had 600 new cases on Saturday and Xinjiang reported more than 200 infections. Despite the obvious, that you can’t have Zero-Covid with these variants, the government continues locking down cities where a case pops up, the latest being the Taigu district of Jinzhong city in the northern province of Shanxi. That follows a tourist destination in Pingyao county and three districts in Nanchong, Sichuan province in southwest China. The only thing we can say is if you plan on leaving your home in China to vacation somewhere, pack extra clothes, pack extra medication and take an extended leave from work because you may be there for a while. It is not even safe to drive as last week hundreds of vehicles were stuck on a state highway in Tibet after a neighboring province refused to allow travelers from the region to enter, saying its quarantine system reached capacity. In Xiamen, southeastern Fujian, they are even testing fish plucked from the water because of fears of importing the virus. We could not make this stuff up if we tried.

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