Is the pandemic starting all over again after three years of COVID?

In December 2019, COVID started spreading in China while the rest of the world didn’t pay attention. After stopping the “zero-covid” policy, Omicron is ravaging across China now. We must keep an eye on China’s situation, so we don’t repeat the same mistakes from 3 years ago. The Chinese government does not release actual pandemic data. Chinese netizens and media outside China have estimated casualties and projected that the current waves will continue into the spring.