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  1. Swift and extensive Omicron outbreak in China after sudden exit from ‘zero-COVID’ policy.

    New study published July 1 in Nature finds that lifting Zero-COVID in China caused an estimated 1.4 billion infections and between 1.3 and 2.6 million deaths.

    #COVID19China @auscovid19
    Source: nature.com/articles/s41467-023

  2. twitter.com/fangyingx/status/1 "My mom told me that for our relatives in China who have died of COVID we didn’t write it as the cause of death on paperwork because the crematoriums won’t take them if you do.

    So in the past 2 weeks we’ve lost 4 people to diabetes, heart attack, and stroke, but not COVID."

    😢 (Unverified anecdote.) Six family losses in two weeks!? Now her COVID-denying uncle is reportedly sick. #China #COVIDchina #COVID19China #COVID

  3. Not one, 4 virus variants causing causing China surge.

    China outbreak is due to a cocktail of viruses, which behave differently due to local epidemiology.

    🔹BN and BQ - 50%
    🔹BF.7 - 15%
    🔹SVV - 10-15%

    #COVID19China
    ndtv.com/india-news/not-one-4-

  4. Almost 250 million people in China may have caught COVID in the first 20 days of December, according to an internal estimate from the nation’s top health officials.

    #COVID19China
    edition.cnn.com/2022/12/23/chi

  5. 🇨🇳China is seeing 1 million COVID cases every day as bodies “pile up” in what is likely to be the biggest outbreak the world has ever seen.

    #COVID19China
    news.com.au/world/coronavirus/

  6. Harvard-trained US epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding has warned that 10% of the entire planet will be infected with COVID in the next 90 days as China’s crisis goes “thermonuclear bad”.

    #COVID19China @DrEricDing
    news.com.au/world/asia/thermon

  7. Medical staff in China's hospitals say COVID ripping through their ranks.

    🔹Some hospitals in Beijing have up to 80% of their staff infected

    🔹Hospital in Sichuan province overwhelmed with patients. There are 700 - 800 people with fever coming every day

    #COVID19China
    reuters.com/world/china/medica

  8. 🇨🇳China reports third consecutive daily record for new COVID cases.

    🔹Nov 25 - 35,183
    🔹Nov 24 - 32,943
    🔹Nov 23 - 34,909

    There were no deaths, keeping death toll at 5,232 since the beginning of the pandemic.

    #COVID19China @auscovid19

    Source: reuters.com/world/china/china-

  9. "Despite the Communist party’s enormous powers of social control, ordering the elderly to vaccinate is viewed as a step too far, even for Xi, because of fears it would spark “dramatic social resistance”.

    “They don’t want to force through a vaccine mandate [but] they can’t afford old people dying. So that is why stringent Covid controls are still in place,” Chen said."

    on.ft.com/3V5Ifjf

    #COVID19 #COVID19China

  10. 🇨🇳China on Wednesday reported the highest number of daily COVID cases since the start of the pandemic began nearly 3 years ago.

    🔹31,444 new cases - previous record set on April 13, was 29,317

    #COVID19China

    Source: reuters.com/world/china/chinas