Covid cases Blast in China: country stop publishing daily Covid count

Covid cases Blast in China: China is finding it extremely difficult to contain the massive surge in Covid-19 cases amid packed ICUs and crowded crematoriums. The country has now decided to stop publishing daily Covid-19 figures without specifying the reasons for the change. Covid cases Blast in China: country stop publishing daily Covid count.

Announcing that China’s NHC will no longer release daily Covid data from Sunday, it said, “Relevant Covid information will be published by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention for reference and research.” It did not specify the reasons for the change or how frequently China CDC will update Covid information.

The government’s action comes at a time after a leaked document suggested that about 250 million people in China may have been affected by Covid-19 in just 20 days after the ‘zero-covid policy’ was diluted in the first week of the month.

According to Radio Free Asia, leaked government documents are making rounds on social media which hints that around 250 million people may have been affected due to the infection in just 20 days in first week of the month after the stringent ‘zero-Covid policy’ measures were lifted after massive protests.

A senior journalist told media that the document was genuine, and had been leaked by someone who attended the meeting who was acting deliberately and in the public interests. The leaked document suggests that 248 million people were infected with Covid-19 from December 1 to 20, or 17.65 per cent of China’s population. 

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Hospitals and morgues in China are fully packed as Covid cases are sweeping across the country with experts forecasting million to 2 million Covid deaths next year. The current Covid surge is driven by the highly infectious BF.7 variant, which poses a high risk to the nation.