net_left Kdata adver left
Detail

China braces for COVID holiday surge as people leave megacities for hometowns

By Martin Quin Pollard and Bernard Orr BEIJING (Reuters) - Luggage-laden passengers flocked to railway stations and airports in China's megacities on Monday, heading home for...

By Martin Quin Pollard and Bernard Orr

BEIJING (Reuters) - Luggage-laden passengers flocked to railway stations and airports in China's megacities on Monday, heading home for holidays that health experts fear could intensify a COVID-19 outbreak that has claimed thousands of lives.

After three years of strict and suffocating anti-virus controls, China in early December abruptly abandoned its "zero COVID" policy, letting the virus run freely through its 1.4 billion population.

Authorities on Saturday said nearly 60,000 people with COVID had died in hospitals between Dec. 8 and Jan. 12, a huge increase from previous figures that had been criticised by the World Health Organisation for not reflecting the scale and severity of the outbreak.

Even those numbers most likely exclude many people dying at home, especially in rural areas with weaker medical systems, one health expert has said. Several experts forecast more than one million people in China will die from the disease this year.

Ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays, also known as the Spring Festival, which officially starts on Jan. 21, state media has been filled with stories of rural hospitals and clinics bolstering their supplies of drugs and equipment.

"The peak of COVID infection in our village has passed, but the Spring Festival is approaching and there are still left-behind villagers, especially the elderly, at risk of secondary infection," a doctor in Shaanxi province said in an article by regional news outlet Red Star News.

"If the anti-viral and other drugs were more abundant, I would be more confident," the doctor added.

As well as fever drugs and oxygen supplies, China's National Health Commission has said it would equip every village clinic with pulse oximeters, fingertip devices commonly used during the pandemic to quickly check oxygen levels.

TRAVEL RUSH

Beijing's main rail station has been packed with passengers leaving the capital in recent days, according to Reuters witnesses.

In China's most populous city, Shanghai, temporary night trains have been added to meet demand for travellers heading to the eastern Anhui Province, China's official state news agency Xinhua reported.

Meanwhile, daily arrivals in the gambling hub of Macau exceeded 55,000 on Saturday, the highest daily arrivals since the pandemic began.

In Hong Kong, the government has said it would increase the number of people who can pass through designated land border control points to the mainland to 65,000 people per day from 50,000 between Jan. 18 and Jan. 21.

China's transport ministry has said it expects more than 2 billion trips in the weeks around the holidays.

The revival of travel in China has lifted expectations of a rebound in the world's second-largest economy, which is suffering its lowest growth rates in nearly half a century.

Those hopes helped lift Asian equity markets on Monday, adding to gains of 4.2% last week.

China's blue-chip index was up 0.6% on Monday, while global oil prices have also been supported on expectations of a recovery in demand from the world's top importer China.

Chinese data on economic growth, retail sales and industrial output due this week are certain to be dismal, but markets will likely look past that to how China's reopening could bolster global growth, analysts say.

HOT AUTO TRADE BOT SOFTWARE adver right
APPROVED BROKERS
net_home_top HOT AUTO TRADE BOT SOFTWARE
08-06-2023 09:13:46 (UTC+7)

EUR/USD

1.0708

+0.0009 (+0.08%)

Summary

↑ Sell

Moving Avg:

Buy (5)

Sell (7)

Indicators:

Buy (0)

Sell (6)

EUR/USD

1.0708

+0.0009 (+0.08%)

Summary

↑ Sell

Moving Avg:

Buy (5)

Sell (7)

Indicators:

Buy (0)

Sell (6)

GBP/USD

1.2447

+0.0008 (+0.06%)

Summary

Neutral

Moving Avg:

Buy (6)

Sell (6)

Indicators:

Buy (3)

Sell (5)

USD/JPY

139.95

-0.18 (-0.13%)

Summary

Buy

Moving Avg:

Buy (6)

Sell (6)

Indicators:

Buy (8)

Sell (1)

AUD/USD

0.6664

+0.0012 (+0.18%)

Summary

Sell

Moving Avg:

Buy (3)

Sell (9)

Indicators:

Buy (2)

Sell (4)

USD/CAD

1.3363

-0.0007 (-0.05%)

Summary

Buy

Moving Avg:

Buy (6)

Sell (6)

Indicators:

Buy (7)

Sell (0)

EUR/JPY

149.87

-0.06 (-0.04%)

Summary

Neutral

Moving Avg:

Buy (6)

Sell (6)

Indicators:

Buy (5)

Sell (2)

EUR/CHF

0.9736

-0.0002 (-0.02%)

Summary

↑ Sell

Moving Avg:

Buy (0)

Sell (12)

Indicators:

Buy (1)

Sell (7)

Gold Futures

1,959.85

+1.45 (+0.07%)

Summary

Sell

Moving Avg:

Buy (6)

Sell (6)

Indicators:

Buy (2)

Sell (6)

Silver Futures

23.593

+0.064 (+0.27%)

Summary

Sell

Moving Avg:

Buy (4)

Sell (8)

Indicators:

Buy (2)

Sell (5)

Copper Futures

3.7540

-0.0015 (-0.04%)

Summary

Neutral

Moving Avg:

Buy (2)

Sell (10)

Indicators:

Buy (4)

Sell (1)

Crude Oil WTI Futures

72.45

-0.08 (-0.11%)

Summary

↑ Buy

Moving Avg:

Buy (7)

Sell (5)

Indicators:

Buy (7)

Sell (0)

Brent Oil Futures

76.84

-0.11 (-0.14%)

Summary

↑ Buy

Moving Avg:

Buy (8)

Sell (4)

Indicators:

Buy (7)

Sell (1)

Natural Gas Futures

2.319

-0.012 (-0.51%)

Summary

↑ Sell

Moving Avg:

Buy (2)

Sell (10)

Indicators:

Buy (2)

Sell (9)

US Coffee C Futures

186.10

+3.50 (+1.92%)

Summary

Buy

Moving Avg:

Buy (9)

Sell (3)

Indicators:

Buy (5)

Sell (0)

Euro Stoxx 50

4,291.91

-3.31 (-0.08%)

Summary

↑ Sell

Moving Avg:

Buy (2)

Sell (10)

Indicators:

Buy (3)

Sell (5)

S&P 500

4,267.52

-16.33 (-0.38%)

Summary

↑ Sell

Moving Avg:

Buy (0)

Sell (12)

Indicators:

Buy (2)

Sell (4)

DAX

15,960.56

-31.88 (-0.20%)

Summary

↑ Sell

Moving Avg:

Buy (1)

Sell (11)

Indicators:

Buy (1)

Sell (4)

FTSE 100

7,624.34

-3.76 (-0.05%)

Summary

Sell

Moving Avg:

Buy (4)

Sell (8)

Indicators:

Buy (3)

Sell (5)

Hang Seng

19,173.00

-79.00 (-0.41%)

Summary

Neutral

Moving Avg:

Buy (6)

Sell (6)

Indicators:

Buy (5)

Sell (1)

US Small Cap 2000

1,891.11

+35.71 (+1.92%)

Summary

↑ Buy

Moving Avg:

Buy (12)

Sell (0)

Indicators:

Buy (7)

Sell (1)

IBEX 35

9,359.80

+49.00 (+0.53%)

Summary

↑ Sell

Moving Avg:

Buy (0)

Sell (12)

Indicators:

Buy (1)

Sell (8)

BASF SE NA O.N.

46.450

-0.310 (-0.66%)

Summary

↑ Buy

Moving Avg:

Buy (7)

Sell (5)

Indicators:

Buy (7)

Sell (0)

Bayer AG NA

52.13

-0.15 (-0.29%)

Summary

Neutral

Moving Avg:

Buy (5)

Sell (7)

Indicators:

Buy (7)

Sell (0)

Allianz SE VNA O.N.

208.85

-1.65 (-0.78%)

Summary

Neutral

Moving Avg:

Buy (11)

Sell (1)

Indicators:

Buy (2)

Sell (7)

Adidas AG

159.26

-0.42 (-0.26%)

Summary

Buy

Moving Avg:

Buy (6)

Sell (6)

Indicators:

Buy (7)

Sell (1)

Deutsche Lufthansa AG

9.133

-0.008 (-0.09%)

Summary

↑ Buy

Moving Avg:

Buy (8)

Sell (4)

Indicators:

Buy (7)

Sell (0)

Siemens AG Class N

158.46

+0.10 (+0.06%)

Summary

↑ Buy

Moving Avg:

Buy (11)

Sell (1)

Indicators:

Buy (6)

Sell (2)

Deutsche Bank AG

9.812

+0.028 (+0.29%)

Summary

Buy

Moving Avg:

Buy (9)

Sell (3)

Indicators:

Buy (5)

Sell (3)

 EUR/USD1.0708↑ Sell
 GBP/USD1.2447Neutral
 USD/JPY139.95Buy
 AUD/USD0.6664Sell
 USD/CAD1.3363Buy
 EUR/JPY149.87Neutral
 EUR/CHF0.9736↑ Sell
 Gold1,959.85Sell
 Silver23.593Sell
 Copper3.7540Neutral
 Crude Oil WTI72.45↑ Buy
 Brent Oil76.84↑ Buy
 Natural Gas2.319↑ Sell
 US Coffee C186.10Buy
 Euro Stoxx 504,291.91↑ Sell
 S&P 5004,267.52↑ Sell
 DAX15,960.56↑ Sell
 FTSE 1007,624.34Sell
 Hang Seng19,173.00Neutral
 Small Cap 20001,891.11↑ Buy
 IBEX 359,359.80↑ Sell
 BASF46.450↑ Buy
 Bayer52.13Neutral
 Allianz208.85Neutral
 Adidas159.26Buy
 Lufthansa9.133↑ Buy
 Siemens AG158.46↑ Buy
 Deutsche Bank AG9.812Buy
Mua/Bán 1 chỉ SJC
# So hôm qua # Chênh TG
SJC Eximbank6,635/ 6,675
(-10/ -10) # 1,130
SJC HCM6,635/ 6,695
(-10/ -10) # 1,150
SJC Hanoi6,635/ 6,697
(-10/ -10) # 1,152
SJC Danang6,635/ 6,697
(-10/ -10) # 1,152
SJC Nhatrang6,635/ 6,697
(-10/ -10) # 1,152
SJC Cantho6,635/ 6,697
(-10/ -10) # 1,152
Cập nhật 08-06-2023 09:13:48
Xem lịch sử giá vàng SJC: nhấn đây!
ↀ Giá vàng thế giới
$1,946.79-16.52-0.84%
Live 24 hour Gold Chart
ʘ Giá bán lẻ xăng dầu
Sản phẩmVùng 1Vùng 2
RON 95-V22.79023.240
RON 95-III22.01022.450
E5 RON 92-II20.87021.280
DO 0.05S17.94018.290
DO 0,001S-V18.80019.170
Dầu hỏa 2-K17.77018.120
ↂ Giá dầu thô thế giới
WTI$72.48+0.450.01%
Brent$76.74+0.310.00%
$ Tỷ giá Vietcombank
Ngoại tệMua vàoBán ra
USD23.285,0023.655,00
EUR24.497,3625.869,06
GBP28.481,0929.695,52
JPY163,26172,84
KRW15,5218,91
Cập nhật lúc 09:08:31 08/06/2023
Xem bảng tỷ giá hối đoái
adver main right