The top health official in China has confirmed that the current outbreak in the country is by far the biggest the world has ever seen.
This week, minutes from a meeting of China’s National Health Commission showed that nearly 37 million people were infected with Covid-19 on a single day. This was according to a report from Bloomberg.
The health body thinks that as many as 248 million people got the virus in the first 20 days of December. That’s about 18% of China’s population of 1.4 billion.
The previous daily record was about 4 million. If these numbers are correct, they show that China’s current outbreak is by far the worst ever seen, while the official number screams of a cover-up.
The official number of infections reported on Tuesday was only 3049, which is a far cry from the estimated 37 million cases per day. This is several times more than the previous world record.
On January 19, 2022, the number of cases in the world reached a new high of 4 million, and Omicron took over as the most common variant.
The estimate is also a lot higher than a recent estimate from London-based health researcher Airfinity, which said earlier this week that about 1 million people in China were infected and 5,000 people were dying every day.
Chinese President Xi Jinping stopped his controversial “zero-Covid” policy all of a sudden in the face of strong anti-government protests. This led to a flood of cases, even though the official number of deaths is still suspiciously low.
On Wednesday, China said that since the beginning of December, only eight Covids had died.
But that number doesn’t include John Moffat Fugui, who was the ambassador of Solomon Islands and died in China during Beijing’s “Covid wave.”
