China's State Commission to stop publishing daily statistics on COVID-19 China

's State HEALTH Commission to stop publishing daily data on covid-19 cases, now these functions will be taken over by the CDC. BLOOMBERG previously reported

The National Health Commission of CHINA (NHC), which has published daily data on the incidence of COVID-19 in the country for the past three years, will stop publishing them from December 25, REUTERS reported, citing an NHC statement.

“Relevant information about covid will now be published by the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” the NHC said in a statement, without specifying how often the Chinese CDC will update information about COVID-19.

According to the latest data on the NHC website, 28,914 new cases of CORONAVIRUS were detected on the Chinese mainland on December 23, and another 28,480 people were discharged from hospitals. There is no information on the sick at the time of writing on the CDC website.

Bloomberg reported 37 million COVID cases per day in China Politics

Earlier, Bloomberg, citing a closed meeting of the National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China, reported that since the beginning of December, a quarter of a billion people in China, which is about 18% of the country's population, have fallen ill with COVID-19. According to these calculations, most of those infected fell ill with coronavirus during December, while in one day on December 20, 37 million people became infected with COVID-19. This is the largest surge in COVID-19 infections in China since the start of the pandemic, the agency said.

The largest number of infected people was found in the southern province of Sichuan and the capital region: every second person has COVID-19 there. Bloomberg notes that a sharp surge in cases may be associated with the abolition of Beijing's "zero tolerance" policy for COVID-19.

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China began phasing out its "zero tolerance" policy for COVID-19 in early December, following mass protests in the country. The reason for the rallies was a fire in the city of Urumqi, during which ten people died. According to the South China Morning Post, the building was in a "high-risk" area due to the coronavirus, so leaving could be difficult. City officials denied this.

In particular, from December 7, the country canceled mandatory PCR testing for people whose work is not associated with an increased risk of infection, “high-risk zones” began to be introduced not by territorial-administrative units, but “by buildings, apartments, floors and households ". A vaccination certificate is no longer required to travel within the country or to enter public places, and in case of mild or asymptomatic illness, it is allowed to stay in isolation at home.