Dave ✨@darnell hard to say.
It could also be the effect of known omicron strains on a population that isn’t that well vaccinated. We have seen this sort of impact in the USA, and other western countries in the last nearly 3 years too.
The next variants are just as likely to come from the USA, UK, etc as China, given the lack of mitigations
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