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China reports a dangerous 37 million Covid cases in a day

By Lokmat English Desk | Updated: December 24, 2022 07:49 IST

China may have reported 37 million coronavirus cases in a day this week, making it the largest single-day spike ...

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China may have reported 37 million coronavirus cases in a day this week, making it the largest single-day spike ever, as per a report by Bloomberg. The report estimates that 248 million people in China were likely infected in the first 20 days of December this year. The Bloomberg report quotes minutes from an internal meeting of China’s National Health Commission held on Wednesday.

Thirty-seven million daily cases were registered on December 20, as per the report. The figures are a huge deviation from China’s official tally, which claimed that just 3,049 infections were recorded that day.If the estimate of 37 million daily cases is accurate, the numbers would shatter the previous single-day case record of 4 million reported in January 2022. China has been facing a surge in infections weeks after it made a turnaround on its zero-Covid policy. Several videos have been shared on social media platforms showing overburdened hospitals as the health system came under immense pressure following Covid spike.

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