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China health officials warn against CNY travel amid COVID: Don’t go home

Ahead of the 2023 Chinese New Year holiday, which starts Jan 21 and ends Jan 27, China’s health officials are asking people to stay put and protect elderly family members rather than travel and risk exacerbating China’s ongoing COVID outbreak. Guo Jianwen, a member of China’s pandemic prevention team, suggested on Thursday that if Chinese people were worried about infecting their elderly relatives, “don’t go home to visit them.”