The eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang is battling around one million new daily COVID-19 infections, a number expected to double in the days ahead, according to the provincial government.
The Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Despite says a record surge of cases nationwide; China reported no COVID deaths on the mainland for the 5 days through Saturday.
Citizens and experts have called for more accurate data as infections surged after Beijing made sweeping changes to a zero-COVID policy that had put hundreds of millions of its citizens under relentless lockdowns and battered the world’s second-largest economy.
Nationwide figures from China had become incomplete as the National Health Commission stopped reporting asymptomatic infections, making it harder to track cases.
On Sunday (25 December 2022) the Commission stopped reporting daily figures, which the China CDC then published.
⚠️THERMONUCLEAR BAD—Hospitals completely overwhelmed in China ever since restrictions dropped. Epidemiologist estimate >60% of 🇨🇳 & 10% of Earth’s population likely infected over next 90 days. Deaths likely in the millions—plural. This is just the start—🧵pic.twitter.com/VAEvF0ALg9
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) December 19, 2022
Elevated levels by New Year
“The infection peak is estimated to arrive earlier in Zhejiang and to enter a period of elevated level around New Year’s Day, during which the daily new infection number will be as high as 2 million.” According to the Zhejiang government’s media statement.
Zhejiang says that among the 13,583 infections being treated in the Province’s hospitals, one patient had severe symptoms caused by COVID, while 242 infections of severe and critical conditions were caused by underlying diseases.
China narrowed its definition for reporting COVID deaths, counting only those from COVID-caused pneumonia or respiratory failure, raising eyebrows among world health experts.
Source: SABC
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