Half a million people in a single Chinese city are being infected with COVID-19 every day, a senior health official has said.
Empty shelves at a pharmacy in Beijing. Cities have been struggling to cope with surging infections since China dropped its zero-Covid policy.BEIJING - Half a million people in a single Chinese city are being infected with Covid-19 every day, a senior health official has said, in a rare and quickly censored acknowledgement 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 have narrowed the medical definition of a Covid death in a move experts have said will suppress the number of fatalities attributable to the virus.A news outlet operated by the ruling Communist Party in Qingdao reported the municipal health chief as saying that the eastern city was seeing"between 490,000 and 530,000" new Covid cases a day.
In Shandong, the province where Qingdao is located, authorities officially logged just 31 new domestic cases.
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