Zeng Guang, former chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has admitted that “we didn’t expect the first wave to be this vehement.'
infections rapidly spread to engulf over half of the population in many urban areas, Zeng said, before continuing to spread further. He added that around 17 million people in Beijing—or 80 percent of the capital’s population—might have been infected.
On Thursday, Liang Wannian, leader of the National Health Commission’s COVID-19 expert response team, said accurately estimating the death rate was difficult in the midst of a huge outbreak of cases. “It is only after the wave when we can calculate the case fatality rate and death rate more accurately,” Liang told a news conference reported by theOfficially, China’s CDC says that only 12 new COVID deaths have been recorded since the zero-COVID measures were ditched on Dec.
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