China expects second wave of coronavirus infections

China expects to suffer another wave of coronavirus infections due to a “lack of immunity” in the nation, according to a senior government health official. 

“We are facing [a] big challenge. It's not better than the foreign countries, I think, at the moment,” said Dr. Zhong Nanshan, the Chinese government’s senior medical adviser, in a CNN interview published Sunday.

That assessment, delivered after weeks of Chinese officials offering up their response to the public health crisis as a model for the world, aligns with European expectations of new outbreaks this fall, and it raises the specter of a recurring pandemic, replete with new infections in the country where the contagion first emerged.