Eighty percent of people in China have been infected with COVID-19 amid Lunar New Year celebrations, a top Chinese health official said on Saturday.
China has seen a surge in COVID-19 cases across the country. Most of the population has been infected, according to officials and studies, and crematoriums and hospitals have been overwhelmed. But the regime’s ongoing coverup of the death toll makes it difficult to ascertain the true scale of the outbreak.
Wu Zunyou, the chief epidemiologist of China’s Disease Control and Prevention Center, said in a Weibo post that 80 percent of the population had been infected in the latest outbreak. His comment aligns with statements made by other Chinese officials in recent weeks, and a study showing that 900 million Chinese had been infected….