Speculation about China\u2019s Covid-19 death count is rife. The country\u2019s National Health Commission estimated that the virus infects 37 million people a day. Beijing will stop sharing daily Covid data as it targets herd immunity. India and China held the 17th round of military talks on the Chinese side to resolve issues in Eastern Ladakh. A new section of the China-Russia Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline has been launched. Chinascope brings you the last newsletter edition of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
China over the week<\/strong> According to minutes of a health body\u2019s meeting seen by Bloomberg, as many as 248 million people\u2014almost 18 per cent of the population\u2014likely contracted the virus in the first 20 days of December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But what has caught the world\u2019s attention are reports of a rising death toll linked to the new Covid surge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There have been so many people dying,\u201d said Zhao Yongsheng, a funeral home worker, according to the Associated Press. \u201cThey work day and night, but they can\u2019t burn them all,\u201d Zhao Yongsheng added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reporters working for Associated Press could witness the crematoriums southwest of Beijing city in Gaobeidian receiving a large number of ambulances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOver two hours at the Gaobeidian crematorium on Thursday, AP journalists observed three ambulances and two vans unload with bodies,\u201d wrote Dake Kang of the Associated Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just over an hour\u2019s drive from Beijing, the hospital hallways are packed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At Baoding No. 2 Hospital, in Zhuozhou, Wednesday, patients thronged the hallway of the emergency ward. Patients were breathing with the help of respirators. One woman wailed after doctors told her that a loved one had died,\u201d reported Associated Press.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n People are bombarding Chinese social media sites with comments like \u201ceveryone I know has it\u201d\u2014the \u2018it\u2019 meaning Covid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Speculation about China\u2019s Covid-19 death count is rife. The country\u2019s National Health Commission estimated that the virus infects 37 million people a day. Beijing will stop sharing daily Covid data as it targets herd immunity. India and China held the 17th round of military talks on the Chinese side to resolve issues in Eastern Ladakh. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89549,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89547\/revisions\/89549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
China\u2019s National Health Commission held an internal meeting on Wednesday, which became an instant headline around the world, according to reports by Bloomberg. The health body said in internal discussions that as many as 37 million people in China might have been infected with Covid on a single day last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n