As China’s Covid Tsunami Recedes, Relief, Grief and Anxiety Follow - The New York Times

As China’s Covid Tsunami Recedes, Relief, Grief and Anxiety Follow

Lu Xiaozhou, a writer from Hubei Province in central China, wrote online that 10 to 20 older residents had died in his home village of some thousand people during the recent Covid wave, and that “counts as very lucky.” Li Jing, a farmer and feeble migrant worker from Yulin, a rural area of northwest China, said that even though his own family’s older relatives survived the outbreak, other families were not as fortunate.

“There have been a lot of funerals in the county lately, I’ve seen them,” he said by telephone. Asked around the future, he said: “Now I don’t feel anything. I just want everything to go back to normal, that’s all.”

The resumption of normal life poses the risk of new surge of infections, especially after the one- or two-week-long Lunar New Year break, when many rural migrants who had traveled to their hometowns for family reunions Begin to return to cities. As people start moving against, so could the virus, and those who have avoided infection up to now may be exposed.

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