People wait to board a practice at a railway station through the annual Spring Festival journey rush forward of the Chinese Lunar New Year, because the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Shanghai, China January 16, 2023. (REUTERS)
The risk of a big scale rebound of COVID in China over the subsequent two or three months could be very small as 80% of the inhabitants has already been contaminated, the chief epidemiologist on the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention stated on Saturday.