The COVID-19 flash is raging in China, the number of sick in the PRC has reached an unprecedented scale. After removing tough covid restrictions in the first 20 days of December 248 million people in China (almost 18% of the population of the traine) were infected with coronavirus. This was reported by Bloomberg with reference to the Protocol of the meeting of the National Commission of Health of China presented at a closed meeting.
This week, December 20, a new anti -record was established for the number of 37 million people infected in one day. The previous maximum growth of the sick was recorded in January 2022, then 4 million people became infected in a day.
The numbers differ from the official data that publish China authorities. On December 21, the government reported on 2,996 sick and only 10 deaths since the beginning of December. Since December, China has not reported to WHO – the country has stopped sending data on hospitalizations with COVID -19.
The virus spreads against the background of the removal of part of coronavirus restrictions. For all three years since the beginning of the pandemic in China, hard quarantine acted in China. People were forced to sit in their apartments for months. In some cities, the police blocked exits from apartment buildings. At the end of November, the residents of China, tired of the ongoing quarantine, for the first time in 30 years organized a massive protest against the policy of “zero tolerance”. As a result, the authorities made concessions: they softened a number of quarantine measures. The softening of covid restrictions expectedly led to the unhindered spread of the virus.