The country’s leading health authority has estimated that on a single day this week, close to 37 million people in China may have contracted Covid. Given that approximately 248 million individuals, or almost 18% of the population, have probably contracted the virus in the first 20 days of December, this makes the country’s outbreak by far the greatest in the world.
According to the minutes of an internal meeting of China’s National Health Commission (NHC), if correct, the infection rate might be far higher than the previous daily record of roughly 4 million, recorded in January 2022, Bloomberg reported. This follows Beijing’s quick removal of Covid Zero limitations, which allowed the virulent omicron strains to spread. According to estimations from the CDC, the province of Sichuan in southwest China and the capital Beijing have more than half of their population afflicted. It was unclear how the figure was estimated, though.
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No estimate of the number of deaths attributable to Covid was made, but the minutes referenced Ma Xiaowei, the head of the NHC, in reiterating the more specific criteria used to count Covid fatalities, according to Bloomberg. Beijing’s severe and critical Covid cases are beginning to peak, according to officials, despite the city’s general infection incidence declining. In the meantime, the outbreak is moving from China’s cities to its rural areas, and the government has warned every region to get ready for a wave of serious illness that is soon to arrive.A significant difference between the anticipated daily cases of 37 million cases for December 20 and the actual count of merely 3,049 infections reported in China for that day. Additionally, it exceeds the previous pandemic-related world record by a significant margin. On January 19, 2022, the number of cases worldwide reached an all-time high of 4 million after a surge of omicron infections brought on by the virus’s introduction in South Africa.
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