China stops publishing daily numbers of "Corona" injuries

The National Health Commission of China, which has been publishing daily numbers of “Covid-19” infections in the country over the past three years or so, announced that it will not publish such data, as of today, amid doubts about its credibility after infections exploded in the wake of the outbreak. Sudden loosening of strict restrictions.

The committee said, in a statement, that “the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention will publish information related to (Covid) for reference and research,” without specifying the reasons for this change or the frequency with which the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention updates information related to “Covid-19.”

The National Health Commission's halt to publishing the daily total of infections and deaths comes as concerns grow about a lack of critical information since Beijing made sweeping changes to its "zero Covid" policy, which has led to strict lockdowns on hundreds of millions of its citizens and battered the country's second-largest economy. the scientist.

Despite the record rise in the number of infections, the National Health Commission did not record any deaths from "Covid-19" nationwide for four consecutive days before stopping the publication of the data.

Britain-based health data company Irfinity estimated last week that China was seeing more than 1 million infections and 5,000 deaths per day.

After breaking daily records for "Covid-19" infections in late November, the National Health Commission this month stopped recording asymptomatic infections, making it difficult to track infections.

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