Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – The Chinese National Health Committee announced that it will stop publishing daily infection statistics with the Corona virus, with the epidemic spreading strongly, and the committee said in a statement, today, Sunday: “From now on, we will not publish daily outbreak information and outbreak information.” related to”.
Instead, the CDC will publish epidemic statistics for reference and research purposes. The CDC of China is a sub-department administered by the National Health Commission.
The statement did not say how often the CDC will release COVID-19 reports. China’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publishes monthly summaries of all infectious diseases regulated by Chinese law, ranging from seasonal influenza, hepatitis B, and plague.
Meanwhile, health officials in China’s Zhejiang Province, located south of Shanghai, said on Sunday that they were recording more than 1 million new COVID-19 cases per day.
The county has a population of 64 million, according to the most recent census data published in 2021. According to CNN’s calculations, those rates mean regarding 1,563 new daily infections per 100,000 residents.
“Currently, the number of new daily infections reported in our province has exceeded one million,” Yu Shenle, deputy head of the Zhejiang Provincial Health Commission, said at a press conference.
He added that the current wave in the province is expected to peak on New Year’s Day, with the number of daily infections reaching 2 million, and said that the peak period is expected to last a week before easing.
In turn, Qingdao City Health Chief Bo Tao told reporters on Friday that the city of 9 million people in northern Shandong Province is also seeing regarding half a million new infections per day, adding that the peak is yet to come. According to CNN’s calculations, those rates are 5,556 people per 100,000 inhabitants.
Since China dramatically eased anti-Corona restrictions earlier this month, there has been no clear data on the extent of the virus spreading at the national level.
