Some 89% of people in Henan province have been infected but visits to clinics have peaked.
Nearly 90% of people in Henan, China's third most populous province, have now been infected with Covid, local health officials say.
He said visits to fever clinics in Henan province peaked on 19 December "after which it showed a continuous downward trend".According to official data, just 120,000 people in the country of 1.4 billion have been infected and 30 died since the shift in Covid policy. Other local and provincial officials have also been providing very different data to that from the central government. On Christmas Eve, a senior health official in the port city of Qingdao reported that half a million people were being infected each day. Those case figures were swiftly removed from news reports.
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