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China has stopped publishing daily COVID-19 data, adding to concerns that the country’s leadership may be concealing negative information about the pandemic following the easing of restrictions.
China’s National Health Commission said in a statement that it would no longer publish the data daily beginning Sunday and that „from now on, the Chinese CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) will release relevant COVID information for reference and research.“ The NHC did not say why the change had been made and did not indicate how often the CDC would release data.
China is experiencing a surge in new cases since restrictions were eased. In China’s eastern Zhejiang province alone, the provincial government said it was experiencing about 1 million new daily cases. Meanwhile, Bloomberg and the Financial Times reported on a leaked estimate by top Chinese health officials that as many as 250 million people may have been infected in the first 20 days of December.
