Swift and extensive Omicron outbreak in China after sudden exit from ‘zero-COVID’ policy

Abstract In late 2022, China transitioned from a strict ‘zero-COVID’ policy to rapidly abandoning nearly all interventions and data reporting. This raised great concern about the presumably-rapid but unreported spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a very large population of very low pre-exist...

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Main Authors: Emma E. Goldberg, Qianying Lin, Ethan O. Romero-Severson, Ruian Ke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39638-4