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By Anand Singha Dec 22, 2022 2:39:03 PM IST (Published)
Officially, China recorded 2,966 new cases on Wednesday, and less than 10 Covid fatalities have occurred since the start of December. Contrast that, however, with an increasing number of stories claiming that hospitals are overrun with patients and crematoriums are operating at or near full.
China is likely grappling with 1 million COVID infections and 5,000 fatalities every day as it battles what is anticipated to be the world's largest outbreak ever, according to a recent research.
For the nation of 1.4 billion people, the situation might get considerably worse. According to Airfinity Ltd, a London-based analytics company, this current wave may cause the daily case rate to increase to 3.7 million in January. The study predicted that there will then likely be a second wave of infections, raising the daily peak to 4.2 million in March.
The country's rapid turn away from COVID Zero has had a significantly greater impact than the government's estimate.