Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – China’s National Health Committee has announced it will stop publishing daily statistics on Corona virus infection, with the epidemic in full swing, the committee said in a statement on 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. The Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publishes monthly summaries of all infectious diseases regulated by Chinese law, ranging from seasonal flu, to hepatitis B and plague.
Meanwhile, health officials in China’s Zhejiang province, located south of Shanghai, said on Sunday they were recording more than 1 million new cases of COVID-19 a day.
The county has a population of 64 million, according to the most recent census data released in 2021. According to CNN calculations, these rates mean about 1,563 new daily infections per 100,000 residents.
“Currently, the number of daily new infections reported in our province has exceeded one million,” Yu Shenle, deputy head of the Zhejiang Provincial Health Commission, told a news conference.
He added that the current surge in the province is expected to peak on New Year’s Day, with the number of daily infections reaching 2 million, and said the peak period was expected to last a week before easing off.
In turn, Qingdao city health chief Bo Tao told reporters on Friday that the city of 9 million people in the northern province of Shandong is also experiencing about half a million new infections a day, adding that the peak must yet to arrive. According to CNN calculations, these rates are 5,556 people per 100,000 inhabitants.
Since China drastically eased corona restrictions earlier this month, there has been no clear data on how far the virus has spread nationwide.
