The National Health Commission of the PRC from Sunday has stopped publishing daily statistics on the situation with Covid-19, Channel Newsasia reports.
“The Center for Control and Prevention of Diseases of the PRC – for reference information and research work will publish significant information on the COVID -19,” the commission said in a statement of the commission.
Channel Newsasia notes that the commissions did not explain the reasons for this step.
At the same time, South China Morning Post reports that the medical services in the province of Zhejiang, whose population is approximately 64.5 million people, record more than 1 million new cases of coronavirus infection per day. According to forecasts, this indicator in this province in the east of the PRC can reach a peak of 2 million infections by January 1 before starting a decline in front of the Lunar New Year, which this time falls on January 22, 2023.
Since 2020, China’s authorities adhered to “zero tolerance” to Covid-19: this meant that measures such as Locks and obligatory quarantine for those who came into contact with infected people were used to restrict the spread of the virus. However, in December of this year, the Chinese authorities canceled a number of restrictions adopted to contain the spread of the virus, which caused a sharp jump in the diseases and deaths of death due to the rapid spread of the Omicron strain of coronavirus.