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China on alert/ 250 million affected by Covid in 20 days, the largest outbreak globally

2022-12-24 08:49:21Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

China on alert/ 250 million affected by Covid in 20 days, the largest outbreak

Almost 250 million people in China may have been infected with Covid-19 in the first 20 days of December, according to an internal estimate from China's reports.

This figure represents approximately 18% of China's 1.4 billion people and would represent the largest outbreak of Covid-19 to date globally.

The cited figures were presented during an internal meeting of China's National Health Commission (NHC) on Wednesday. The NHC report said it had deepened the treatment of patients affected by the new outbreak. Both the Financial Times and Bloomberg detailed discussions by authorities on how to handle the outbreak.

Among the estimates cited in both reports, it was revealed that on Tuesday alone, 37 million people were infected with Covid-19 across China. This stood in dramatic contrast to the official number of 3,049 new infections reported that day. Sun explained that the rate of spread of Covid in China was still increasing and estimated that more than half of the population in Beijing and Sichuan were already infected, according to the Financial Times.

The assessments follow China's decision in early December to suddenly dismantle its strict zero-Covid policy, which had been in place for nearly three years. The figures are in stark contrast to public NHC data, which reported just 62,592 symptomatic Covid cases in the first twenty days of December.

How the NHC came up with the estimates cited by Bloomberg and the Financial Times is unclear, as China is no longer officially counting its total number of infections after authorities shut down their nationwide network of PCR testing booths and said they would prohibited the collection of data on asymptomatic cases

People in China are also using rapid antigen tests to detect infections and are not required to report positive results.

Officially, China has reported only eight deaths from Covid this month – an unusually low figure given the rapid spread of the virus and relatively low rates of vaccination boosters among the elderly.


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