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.
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