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A healthcare worker in protective gear carries yellow bags of medical waste from a clinic in Beijing, Monday. Chinese health authorities on Monday announced two additional COVID-19 deaths, both in the capital Beijing, that were the first reported in weeks and come during an expected surge of illnesses after the nation eased its strict zero-COVID approach. AP-Yonhap

Next variant likely to emerge in China: experts

By Lee Hyo-jin

Korea should brace for a possible influx of new coronavirus variants from China, says local medical experts, who worry that the neighboring country's abrupt reopening policies could spawn mutations of the virus.

After the Chinese government abruptly rolled back its yearslong zero-COVID-19 strategy earlier this month, the nation is currently facing what could possibly be the world's biggest pandemic outbreak. Some scientists project China to see up to one million deaths over the next few months if the authorities fail to flatten the curve.

Although the scale of human movements between Korea and China has not fully returned to pre-COVID-19 levels, about 250,000 Chinese tourists visited Korea from August to October this year, according to data from the Korea Tourism Organization. And that figure is expected to increase as the Chinese government is anticipated to relax travel restrictions further.

As for Korea, there are currently no COVID-19-related restrictions on entrants of foreign nationality regardless of vaccination history or nationality. Travelers are also not subject to mandatory PCR tests upon arrival.

Local infectious disease experts viewed that China's sudden easing of COVID-19 restrictions has created the perfect environment for the virus to mutate. And if a new variant emerges, Korea will be one of the first countries to be affected, they warned.

"As seen from previous cases of Delta and Omicron variants, new strains emerge in regions with low vaccination coverage and a sudden spike in infections," said Kim Woo-joo, an infectious disease specialist at Korea University Guro Hospital, citing the identification of the Delta variant in India in 2020 and Omicron in South Africa in 2021.

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