As many as 25,000 Chinese people may die from COVID-19 at the expected peak of an infection wave next month, according to a British-based health analytics firm, offering a bleak prediction of what the regime’s abrupt U-turn in pandemic policy may mean in the absence of reliable COVID-19 figures.
That is predicted to occur on Jan. 23, around China’s Lunar New Year, Airfinity said in its latest analysis published on Dec. 29. COVID-19 infections are likely to peak on Jan. 13 when 3.7 million people may catch the virus, researchers estimated, with the peak of deaths following 10 days later.
Massive outbreaks are sweeping the country following the regime’s abrupt retreat from its hallmark zero-COVID policy. The actual scale and severity of the outbreak, however, are hard to gauge in the absence of credible infection tallies, prompting experts to turn to proxy data to assess the impact on the global economy and the health of people in China….