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China's Covid Surge Leaves '70% Of Shanghai Infected'
The Independent|January 04, 2023
As China battles a massive surge in Covid cases, a senior doctor at one of Shanghai's top hospitals has claimed that 70 per cent of the city's population has been infected.
- Maroosha Muzaffar
China's Covid Surge Leaves '70% Of Shanghai Infected'

The wave of cases comes after the Communist regime loosened draconian Covid restrictions overnight, overwhelming hospitals and crematoriums. Chen Erzhen, vice president at Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai and a member of the city's Covid-19 expert advisory panel, was quoted as saying the majority of the city's 25 million people may have been infected. Now the spread of the epidemic in Shanghai is very wide, and it may have reached 70 percent of the population, which is 20 to 30 times more than [in April and May], he reportedly said.

Meanwhile, state media have downplayed the severity of the Covid wave ahead of a crucial briefing to WHO scientists yesterday. Experts are saying that the illness has been relatively mild for most people, according to Reuters. WHO officials have met counterparts from China's National Health Commission to ask for regular sharing of specific and real-time data on the epidemiological situation.

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