Chinese city sees 500K Covid cases a day

By Agence France-Presse

Dec 25, 2022 12:03 am

BEIJING: Half a million people in a single Chinese city are being infected with the coronavirus every day, a senior health official has said, in a rare and quickly censored acknowledgment that the East Asian country's wave of infections is not being reflected in official statistics.

China this month has rapidly dismantled key pillars of its 'zero Covid' strategy, doing away with snap lockdowns, lengthy quarantines and travel curbs in a jarring reversal of its hallmark containment strategy.

UP FOR GRABS Volunteers arrange medicines donated by merchants and residents for people to collect for free at a public service center in the city of Tonglu, Zhejiang province, eastern China on Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. AFP PHOTO

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