The spread of the Corona virus is raging China at the moment. A senior Chinese health official also said half a million people in a Chinese city had been infected COVID-19 in a day!
The news agency reports it AFP extensionOn Saturday (12/24/2022), a Communist Party-run news outlet in Qingdao city on Friday (12/23) reported that the city’s health chief said that “between 490,000 and 530,000” new cases COVID-19 recorded in the city in one day.
The coastal city of about 10 million people is “in a period of rapid contagion with an approaching peak in sight,” said the senior official, Bo Tao. He added that the infection rate virus crown it will increase another 10 percent over the weekend.
The report was shared by several other news outlets, but was later edited on Saturday (12/24) morning local time to remove the case figure.
China’s National Health Commission said on Saturday that 4,103 new cases of the domestic infection were registered nationwide the previous day, with no new deaths.
In Shandong, the province where Qingdao is located, the authorities have officially registered only 31 new domestic cases.
Government China maintaining tight media coverage of the country, with online censors to remove content deemed politically sensitive.
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