A paper published in the Lancet medical journal on Wednesday showed that no new COVID-19 variants had emerged in the initial weeks of China's recent outbreak, after the end of its zero-COVID policy saw a huge wave of cases.
The world should "calm down" about the possibility of new COVID-19 variants circulating in China, leading Chinese scientist George Gao said.
"The world should completely calm down from the fear that there are new variants or special variants circulating [in China]," Gao, professor at the Institute of Microbiology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and former head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention , told Reuters.The variants causing infections in China were the same Omicron sub-variants - BA.5.2 and BF.7 - seen elsewhere in the world, he said by email.
The findings are representative of the entire country, the authors said, citing the characteristics of Beijing's population and circulation of highly transmissible COVID-19 strains. A prominent government scientist said on Jan. 21 that 80 per cent of people had been infected already and China's CDC has said repeatedly in the past month that continuous monitoring showed no new strains of COVID-19 have been found.
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