The Commission gave no reason for this on Sunday. The China Center for Disease Control and Prevention will “continue to release information about the outbreak for reference and research purposes,” it said. The Commission has not commented on the nature and frequency of these publications.
Internet users in China reacted cynically to the announcement. “It was the best and largest fake statistics agency in the country,” wrote a user on the Weibo online service about the authority that had previously published the official corona data. Another wrote: “Finally waking up and realizing they can’t fool people anymore.”
The People’s Republic surprisingly heralded the end of its controversial zero-Covid policy this month after nationwide protests. Since then, the number of infections has exploded. Medicines are sometimes scarce and hospitals are overcrowded. Crematoria and undertakers apparently also have problems due to the rising number of deaths.
According to the authorities, it is now impossible to estimate the number of corona cases due to the end of mandatory testing. The authorities have also tightened the medical definition of corona deaths, which means that the number of corona deaths according to observers is lower than it actually is. Officially, only six corona deaths have been reported since the corona measures were lifted.
(SDA)