COVID-19 in China and The Lesson We Learned from the Pandemic
The situation of the COVID-19 pandemic in general in various parts of the world seems to have been on the verge of epidemy. However, China as the country of 'origin' of the virus has experienced an unusually significant increase in the virus. Data from the ECDC (2022) states that there is a sharp increase in the virus and reached a peak on December 2, 2022. This is expected to continue to rise until early 2023. Therefore, various countries in the world take preventive measures for migrants who enter their territory and come from China. As per January 2023, Australia, Canada, Italy, France, The United Kingdom, Sweden, Austria, Japan, and the United States are some of the countries that apply fairly strict regulations for people from China (Bloomberg, 2023; Moritsugu, 2023).
So what lesson can be learned from the event of earlier this year? As we all know, China is one of the driving countries of the world economy. China's economy accounted for about 18.56% of the world's in 2021 (Statista, 2021). This, of course, will be directly proportional if we bring to the increasing cases of COVID-19 sufferers in the world and how the world will correct its productivity. Experts think that the productivity of the world economy is largely supported by China, which indeed accounts for the majority of the world's consumer market. Countries with other large consumer markets are also heavily dependent on China as a result of China's basic industries and manufacturing flooding the world.
For Indonesia, as one of the countries with a large consumer market and a conducive COVID-19 pandemic situation should have good and measurable preventive measures so that this favorable situation no longer turns into a gloomy situation like the past 2-3 years. An epidemiologist from Griffith University Australia, Dicky Budiman, in Ulya (2022) revealed that Indonesia should be able to be vigilant of the situation that occurs in China, according to him, Indonesia can be in a situation that is in a vulnerable condition and is very risky if the increase in China is not taken seriously even though COVID-19 cases in the country are increasingly rampant.
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