Half a million people in a single Chinese city are being infected with COVID-19 every day, showing that the country's wave of infections is not being reflected in official statistics. | via philstarlife
, a senior health official has said, in a rare and quickly censored acknowledgment that the country's wave of infections is not being reflected in official statistics.
But the end of strict testing mandates has made caseloads virtually impossible to track, while authorities havein a move experts have said will suppress the number of fatalities attributable to the virus. The report was shared by several other news outlets but appeared to have been edited by Saturday morning, Dec. 24 to remove the case figures.
China's government keeps a tight leash on the country's media, with legions of online censors on hand to scrub out content deemed politically sensitive.
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