"It is difficult to justify that a Chinese positive for Covid in a western country poses a risk to the population"

Vicente Soriano (Barcelona, ​​1961),

former adviser to the World Health Organization (WHO), researcher in infectious diseases and professor at UNIR, has assessed for this newspaper the situation

that Western countries have adopted before the possible entry of citizens from the Asian giant, such as controls at airports.

He maintains that "there is a bit of

by the west.

But, of course, if the US decides, somehow, not to close the borders to the Chinese, but to ask them for a PCR, it puts them in a very tense situation, because the availability of tests there is very low.

Then, the stampede phenomenon for Chinese who have the resources to flee the country can be very abrupt.

In 15 days those who can will leave.

So the rest of the civilized world, Europe, basically,

has done the same as the US for whatever reason, "he points out. In his opinion, "it is difficult to justify that a Chinese positive for Covid in a western country pose a risk to the population;

medically there are no sufficient reasons".

Well, coming from China it is not reliable at all.

But we all know people who come from there and it is clear that they are in a beastly crisis.

It is a strange situation.

What I interpret from what they tell me is that, when there were protests in China a month ago, due to a building that caught fire with people with Covid,

, which function within the country

for people that has access, from which rural areas are excluded, where there is little coverage and little access to mobile phones.

And then, the riots that took place in

have been something never seen in China today.

In the West, we have suffered a lot from the consequences of the coronavirus.

Many people have died;

between six and seven million people, according to official figures,

But in China there has been no data and there has been no wave, because when a positive was identified, he, his family and the neighborhoods where cases were identified were locked up.

If now, suddenly, you open your hand, you are going to find a susceptible population, and then, the Chinese health system has nothing to do with the Western ones;

except for some areas of Beijing and Shanghai,

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So, if you add the medical pressure of the six waves that we have had in the West in a few months and in a country with 1,500 million people, well,

That's the feeling.

And although we are not going to find out what is really going to happen or is happening, the images that appear on channels like the BBC or CNN, well... If this is the case, it is a disaster.

This curious rumor that a very different variant is going to appear that compromises the West,

The new variants that are emerging are due to

, because then the antibodies and cellular immunity, which are the two protection mechanisms, in order for a new variant to survive, it has to escape from them.

, because the vaccines they have been able to use either don't work, or they certainly haven't had any booster shots.

And then very few people have had Covid.

So, basically,

, they can continue to have a very bad time.

They do not need a new one to arise.

The fact that there are many Chinese who emigrate to places like Vietnam, the United States or Europe, those who have money to come, may have a founding effect, but it is very unlikely, because, basically,

There is a deterrent effect by asking Chinese to come to submit vaccination or PCR data.

So there will be many who do not come because they do not have that data.

Then the PCR data, what they suggest is that that person has active replication during that moment and in the following two, three weeks.

I think that those who have come so far are those who have money and do not come from areas where there is a replication of cases.

Do you remember when there was a massive closure here on March 14, 2020?

Well, the previous weekend there was a general getaway of people to Levante or to second homes.

But, those who could did it.

A lot of people couldn't do it.

I think that those who have come so far are those who have been able to, those who have had money and are doing well.

But, in remote parts of China, rural, which is the majority of the country, and with very limited economic capacities, they are there.

And if they have removed restrictions, it is foreseeable that they will become infected.

In any case, I believe that this situation has been instrumentalized to take measures that deepen the isolation of China by the West

These checks are not justified... unless millions of Chinese show up at the airport, but that is not going to be the case because, among other things, they don't have the money for it.

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It is difficult to justify that a Chinese positive for Covid in a western country poses a risk to the population.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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