The covid situation in China is pretty controversial, as we have been reporting lately. A couple of days ago, we were revealing that China has slashed the number of locations that are deemed at high risk of wider covid outbreaks, re-opening locked down areas, including one hosting a key factory of an Apple supplier.
Latest reports reveal China covid numbers
“The number of high-risk areas tumbled to around 4,500 on Monday, official data showed, down 85% from more than 30,000 on Dec. 7 before the latest policy shift was announced,” according to the latest reports.
A district in the city of Zhengzhou in central China where iPhone supplier Foxconn has a vast facility, declared on Monday that it had released all high-risk zones from lockdown.
“Last month, thousands of workers fled the Foxconn facility on fears of COVID lockdowns, curtailing production. High-risk areas without new infections for five consecutive days should be released from lockdown, according to one of China’s latest protocols released on Dec. 7.”
China addresses covid tracking amidst rising number of infections
It’s been just revealed that China’s top health body said Wednesday the true scale of coronavirus infections in the country is now “impossible” to track. It’s also worth noting that the officials are warning cases are rising rapidly in Beijing after the government abruptly abandoned its zero-COVID policy last week.
Three years of attempting to stamp out the virus have already passed and the sudden end of mass testing and quarantines has triggered a corresponding drop in officially reported infections, which hit an all-time high only last month.
It’s also worth noting the fact that testing is no longer required for much of the country, and China’s National Health Commission on Wednesday admitted its numbers no longer reflected reality.
“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.
