Jakarta, CNNI Indonesia —
A total of 250 million people in China suspected of being infected with Covid-19 in December 2022. This figure makes the World Health Organization (WHO) worry.
The data emerged during an internal meeting of China’s National Health Commission (NHC) and other health officials on Wednesday (12/21), as reported Cnn Friday (23/12).
The estimated number of cases is 18% of China’s total population of 1.4 billion. This number is also the highest number of cases globally since the first Covid-19 outbreak.
During the internal meeting, the deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) Sun Yang also said that about 37 million residents of the bamboo curtain country were infected with the Covid-19 on Tuesday (12/20). ).
Sun said the rate of the spread of Covid-19 in China will continue to increase. Furthermore, he estimated that more than half of the population of Beijing and Sichuan had been exposed.
Copies of the minutes of the meeting were leaked and circulated widely on social media this week. CNN could not independently confirm the data. The NHC also did not immediately comment when asked about the data.
However, these data are inversely proportional to the NHC ratio. On Tuesday (12/20), the health institute released daily cases of Covid-19 in China, an increase of 3,049 cases.
During the first 20 days of December, the NHC also reported only 62,592 symptomatic cases of Covid-19 in China.
Meanwhile, the death rate from Covid-19 in December was just eight people. While previously, a circulating video containing the bodies allegedly dead from the corona virus lined crematoria and hospitals.
In response to the increase in Covid-19 cases in China, WHO is reportedly starting to worry.
reported financial timesWHO has urged Beijing to be more transparent about the number of infected cases and deaths, the severity of the disease, the number of hospital admissions and other health statistics.
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