China stops publishing the corona numbers
Huge wave of infections – China officially stops publishing the corona numbers
Daily corona data are no longer announced in China – despite an explosion in the number of infections: around 250 million infections have been feared since the beginning of the month. Our China correspondent Matthias Kamp reports from Shanghai.
Another massive wave of corona infections is spreading in China. The authorities meanwhile stopped the communication of the numbers. Internet users comment cynically on this.
China is stopping the publication of daily corona data after almost three years against the background of a massive wave of infections. The number of new infections and deaths is no longer announced daily, the National Health Commission said on Sunday. The Commission did not give a reason for this.
The China Center for Disease Control and Prevention will continue to “release information about the outbreak for reference and research purposes,” it said. The Commission did not comment on the nature and frequency of these publications.
Internet users in China reacted cynically to the announcement. “It was the best and largest office for fake statistics in the country,” wrote a user on the online service Weibo about the authority that had previously published the official corona data. Another wrote: “Finally waking up and realizing they can’t fool people anymore.”
The People’s Republic surprisingly heralded the end of its controversial zero-Covid policy this month after nationwide protests. Since then, the number of infections has skyrocketed. Medicines are sometimes scarce and hospitals are overcrowded. Crematoria and undertakers are also apparently having problems because of the increasing number of deaths.
end of compulsory testing
According to the authorities, it is now impossible to estimate the number of corona cases due to the end of the obligation to test. The authorities have also narrowed the medical definition of corona deaths, so the number of corona deaths is lower than it actually is, according to observers. Officially, only six corona deaths have been reported since the corona measures were lifted.