China’s Lunar New Year celebrations raise concerns about COVID spread, while officials say peak is past

China’s Lunar New Year celebrations raise concerns about COVID spread, while officials say peak is past

A few days into the first Lunar New Year holiday since the lifting of pandemic restrictions in China, Chinese consumers are eager to travel but are also wary as a major COVID wave sweeps the nation, MarketWatch’s Tanner Brown reported.

The 15-day festival is considered the world’s largest annual migration, during which students and workers return to their hometowns in droves — that is, until COVID shut down travel in 2020.

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