Half a million people in a single Chinese city are infected by Covid-19 every day: a senior health official in the city of Qingdao said in a report shared on social media but "corrected" within hours.
In fact, Beijing has changed the criteria for defining infections and deaths from Covid , significantly restricting the number.
However a Communist Party-run news outlet in Qingdao reported that the municipal health chief said the city was recording "between 490,000 and 530,000" new cases of Covid per day.
Qingdao, a coastal city of about 10 million people, reportedly experienced "a period of rapid transmission approaching a peak," Bo Tao said, adding that the infection rate would accelerate by another 10% during the end. week.
The report was edited after a few hours to remove the digits. And China's National Health Commission said there were 4,103 new infections nationwide yesterday, with no new deaths.
In Shandong, the province where Qingdao is located, the authorities have officially registered only 31 new cases.
(Unioneonline/L)
