1/4 The lifting of #ZeroCovid restrictions in early December has, inevitably, led to infections, severe illness and deaths in #China, almost three years after the #virus engulfed the world but was kept locked down there. 
2/4 “Bodies are overflowing everywhere,” a cremation fixer told Bloomberg. Yet the official count is unbelievably low - just eight deaths for the last week of December.
#China #Covid
#China #Covid
3/4 Even after #China recently narrowed the definition of death from #Covid, to exclude underlying diseases, the official death tolls are impossibly low, with some estimates suggesting about 9,000 people were dying of Covid-related causes every day in late December.
4/4 Moreover, the failure to share critical data worries scientists that a new, more troublesome variant may escape early detection.
#China #Covid
#China #Covid
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