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Able_Golf_7301 t1_j215q7s wrote

Reply to comment by laffnlemming in Covid in China: Countries tighten rules as tourism set to resume by redcccp

I think Chinese New Year is coming up, yes?

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laffnlemming t1_j215uqs wrote

Everybody's new year is coming up.

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Able_Golf_7301 t1_j2162me wrote

Yeah, this is how the orginal COVID really spread last time.

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green_flash t1_j2180jm wrote

The original variant had spread across the world long before Chinese New Year and even before regular New Year. We just couldn't tell at that point, but later tests showed that it was already in multiple countries including Spain, Italy and the US before anyone even knew there was a new virus.

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Able_Golf_7301 t1_j21ekff wrote

True. Wuhan was just where it was first "offical", and there are all of these stories of people who think they had COVID in 2019, before it had a name.

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Petrie83 t1_j21whw7 wrote

Yeah, Chinese New year is late January this year.

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Able_Golf_7301 t1_j22jn0s wrote

I remember COVID spread in a very big way, because of that almost three years ago.

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Petrie83 t1_j24576k wrote

You're exactly right. I'm in China at the moment and very curious to see what happens this CNY. Having said that, apparently less than 10% of pre-pandemic international flights are expected to be running by CNY.

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