Yasmina Kattou, edited by Loane Nader 11:25 a.m., February 20, 2023
China is abandoning its zero Covid policy despite an explosion of cases this winter.
Travel abroad is then again authorized for the Chinese, likely to contaminate in their host countries, without creating a rebound in the pandemic, according to infectious disease specialist Benjamin Davido.
Chinese tourists will once again be able to travel the world and visit its major capitals, as China has decided to put an end to the particularly intransigent zero covid policy.
Does this mean that the risks of global recontamination have been ruled out?
The last three years of the pandemic have shown that we had to remain cautious, as confirmed by infectious disease specialist Benjamin Davido at the microphone of Europe 1.
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Towards a seasonal virus?
"It is not because there were no variants at a specific time or period of time that there will not be any later. There is a very serious English institute, which is called Infinity Institute, and this institute does the modeling with a risk of Covid rebound around March in China, and/or then in Europe.
The risk is therefore very present, but the end of the zero Covid policy in China could prove beneficial for the future of the pandemic in the world.
“Perhaps this last link in the chain means that we will arrive at a situation in which, the virus having circulated in a pandemic fashion in all the countries of the world and having created a kind of collective but transitory immunity, will finally 'seasonalize.'" advances the specialist.
For Benjamin Davido, it will therefore be interesting to observe to what extent China will be able or not to manage the next waves.