But reporting from inside China during the lunar new year period suggests rates of infection and fatalities exceeding official reports
in this wave, although it was not clear where the figures came from.
The CDC said the number of visits to fever clinics peaked at 2.867m on 23 December, before falling 96.2% to 110,000 on 23 January. A similar decline was observed in visits to rural clinics, with peaks around the same date, it said. With the end of zero-Covid, travel restrictions, mass testing, mandatory quarantine and other measures were wound back or dropped entirely. Data collection systems quickly fell far behind the reality on the ground, with fewer than 60 deaths officially recorded in the first few weeks until authorities updated the way deaths are attributed.
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