China’s Zhejiang, a big industrial province near Shanghai, is battling around a million new daily COVID-19 infections, a number expected to double in the days ahead, the provincial government said. | Reuters
Zhejiang is among the few areas to estimate their recent spikes in infections including asymptomatic cases.
Zhejiang, with a population of 65.4 million, said that among the 13,583 infections being treated in the province’s hospitals, one patient had severe symptoms caused by COVID, while 242 infections of severe and critical conditions were caused by underlying diseases. The World Health Organization has received no data from China on new COVID hospitalizations since Beijing eased its restrictions. The organization says the data gap might be due to the authorities struggling to tally cases in the world’s most populous country.“China is entering the most dangerous weeks of the pandemic,” said a research note from Capital Economics.
Bolstering the urgency is the approach of the Lunar New Year in January, when huge numbers of people return home.
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