At a time when the country is facing a new wave of covid-19, following the end of the zero tolerance policy at the beginning of December, and when it is suspected that the official numbers are a small fraction of the real numbers, the National Commission of Health of China announced that it will no longer publish the daily numbers of new cases and deaths.
According to the article published by the EuroNewsin the last publication, Beijing reported just over four thousand new cases in the country, but according to a publication, which according to the news, was promptly deleted, by a health official from Qingdao, in the city alone there were half million new infections daily.
Although no justification was given for the end of daily updates, the end of the omnipresence of PCR tests and individual monitoring using self-tests make it difficult to present reliable numbers, advances the news.
However, the Chinese health authorities guarantee that they will continue to publish information regarding the pandemic, without providing further details.
