China said on Monday that the COVID-19 situation in the country was at a “low level”, and fever clinic visits during the Lunar New Year due to the coronavirus dropped by nearly 40% ahead of a week-long holiday.
“The overall epidemic situation in the country has reached a low level, and the epidemic situation in various places continues to decline,” Mi Feng, spokesman for the National Health Commission, told a media briefing on Monday.
Domestic as well as travel in and out of China increased sharply during the holiday period as millions of people boarded planes, trains after Beijing abruptly ended nearly three years of zero-COVID policy in early December. , boarded buses and highways.
A transport ministry official told reporters that passenger trips during the annual travel congestion period between January 7 and January 29 reached 892 million, up 56% from 2022 but down 46.9% from the same period in 2019.