China has refused to publish daily statistics on new cases of coronavirus infection. Previously, the data was published by the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China since January 21, 2020 when the first outbreak of coronavirus was registered in Wuhan.
The statistics will now be published by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Recently, the country has radically changed the methods of counting deaths from COVID-19 — only those cases, in which respiratory failure became the cause of death, are included in the statistics.
At the same time, China is experiencing a sharp outbreak of coronavirus cases — 1 million new cases of the infection are registered per day in one of the provinces. In total, 248 million Chinese have been infected with the coronavirus since the beginning of December, which is 18 percent of the country’s population.
According to Bloomberg, the global consortium that monitors the pandemic is convinced that the current outbreak in China is caused by already known strains of coronaviruses — scientists have not found any signs of new mutations.
