As the new coronavirus infection spreads rapidly in China, domestic media reported an estimate by a research team at Peking University that the total number of infected people has reached 900 million.
If the estimate is true, more than 60% of the population of 1.4 billion has been infected.
The Chinese media "Economic Observation Network" reported an estimate of the number of domestic infections with the new coronavirus compiled by a team of researchers from Peking University.
As a result of estimating the number of infected people based on the number of searches on the Internet related to the symptoms of the new corona, such as "fever" and "cough," this team estimated that by January 11, a total of 900 million people, more than 60% of the population, had been infected. I'm trying to reach out to people.
The infection spread rapidly after the Chinese government eased infection control measures on December 7, and reached a peak in many areas on the 20th, 13 days later.
And by the end of the month, it means that the peak was passed in various places.
After ending the "zero corona" policy to thoroughly suppress infections, the Chinese government stopped announcing information on the number of infected people at the end of January 8, and the details of the infection are unknown. Hmm.
From January 21st, the Chinese New Year's "Spring Festival" begins, and as people return to their hometowns in earnest, there are growing concerns about the spread of infection in rural areas and the emergence of new mutated viruses. .