Revellers take photos during a fireworks and laser show as they celebrate the New Year next to Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong on January 1, 2023. (Photo by Isaac Lawrence/AFP Photo)





Tourists and people of Miao ethnic group in traditional costumes attend a ceremony to celebrate the traditional Lusheng Festival at Dali village on January 3, 2023 in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





This photo taken on January 3, 2023 shows a resident (C) receiving a health check in Danzhai county, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, in China's southwestern Guizhou province, as medical workers offer health check and medical kits for people who can't easily leave their homes. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





People slide down on a ice slide at an amusement park in Harbin, in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province, on January 4, 2023, ahead of the 39th Harbin China International Ice and Snow Festival. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)





Rime ice scenery along the Songhua River on Rime Island in Wulajie Town, Jilin City, northeast China's Jilin Province, 4 January, 2023. (Photo by Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Illuminated decorations featuring ancient Chinese poems hang from trees at Giant Wild Goose Pagoda scenic area on January 4, 2023 in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





A delivery worker adjusts his face mask as he rides on his bike loaded with customers' online order groceries on a street in Beijing, Wednesday, January 4, 2023. As the virus continues to rip through China, global organizations and governments have called on the country to start sharing data while others have criticized its current numbers as meaningless. Throughout the pandemic, the country's dearth of information has prompted caution and weariness. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





An elderly patient receives an intravenous drip while using a ventilator in the hallway of the emergency ward at a hospital in Beijing, Thursday, January 5, 2023. Patients, most of them elderly, are lying on stretchers in hallways and taking oxygen while sitting in wheelchairs as COVID-19 surges in China's capital Beijing. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A family member carrying the photo of a deceased relative outside a mortuary of a hospital in Beijing, Thursday, January 5, 2023. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A visitor slides over the snow at the Harbin Ice and Snow World in Harbin, in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province on January 5, 2023, during the opening ceremony of the 39th Harbin China International Ice and Snow Festival. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)





A relative reacts next to a man receiving chest compressions through a CPR device while lying on the floor in the emergency department of a hospital, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Shanghai, China on January 5, 2023. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)





A medical worker checks the IV drip treatment of a patient lying on a bed in the emergency department of a hospital, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Shanghai, China on January 5, 2023. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)





Patients lie on beds in the emergency department of a hospital, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Shanghai, China, on January 5, 2023. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)





Children play at the Harbin Ice and Snow World in Harbin, in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province on January 5, 2023, during the opening ceremony of the 39th Harbin China International Ice and Snow Festival. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)





A woman wearing a face mask walks by empty coffins placed at a mortuary of a hospital in Beijing, Friday, January 6, 2023. China is seeking to minimize the possibility of a major new COVID-19 outbreak during this month’s Lunar New Year travel rush following the end of most pandemic containment measures. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





People wearing face masks walk on street in Beijing, Friday, January 6, 2023. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





People walk on blocks of ice on the frozen Songhua river in Harbin, in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province, on January 6, 2023. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)





A man (top L) rides his scooter past other parked bicycles in Sheung Shui in Hong Kong on January 6, 2023, a border district next to mainland China. (Photo by Isaac Lawrence/AFP Photo)





A woman poses beside blocks of cut ice on the frozen Songhua river in Harbin, in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province, on January 6, 2023. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)





Siberian tigers are fed by visitors from a bus at the Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin, in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province, on January 6, 2023. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)