China’s top health body said Wednesday the true scale of coronavirus infections in the country is now “impossible” to track, with officials warning cases are rising rapidly in Beijing after the government abruptly abandoned its zero-Covid policy last week
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“Many asymptomatic people are no longer participating in nucleic acid testing, so it is impossible to accurately grasp the actual number of asymptomatic infected people,” the NHC said in a statement. Chinese leaders are determined to press ahead with opening up, with Beijing’s tourism authority saying Tuesday that it would resume tour groups in and out of the capital.
“Basically, if we are lining up here, we are all infected. We would not come here if we weren’t,” one person waiting in line told AFP. Residents have complained of sold-out cold medicines and long lines at pharmacies, while Chinese search giant Baidu said that searches for fever-reducing Ibuprofen had risen 430 percent over the past week.
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