Metropolis Desk-
One million new Covid-19 infections are reported everyday in Zhejiang, a significant industrial province in China close to Shanghai; this figure is projected to quadruple over the coming days.
China reported no Covid deaths on the mainland for the five days up until Saturday, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on Sunday, despite a record rise in cases across the country.
As infections increased following Beijing’s radical adjustments to a zero-Covid policy that had placed hundreds of millions of its inhabitants under constant lockdowns and devastated the world’s second-largest economy, citizens and experts appealed for more reliable data.
As the National Health Commission ceased reporting asymptomatic illnesses, making it more difficult to track instances, national statistics from China had become insufficient. The China CDC then released the data after the commission ceased releasing daily results on Sunday.
