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 on Sunday.
Volunteers arrange medicine donated by merchants and residents for people to collect for free at a public service center in Tonglu, in China's eastern Zhejiang province on December 23, 2022. STR/ AFP
Citizens and experts have called for more accurate data as infections surged after Beijing made sweeping changes to a zero-COVID policy that had put hundreds of millions of its citizens under relentless lockdowns and battered the world's second-largest economy. "The infection peak is estimated to arrive earlier in Zhejiang and to enter a period of elevated level around New Year's Day, during which the daily new infection number will be up to two million," the Zhejiang government said in a statement.
The World Health Organization has received no data from China on new COVID-19 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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