Officials in China’s central province of Henan have said that the COVID-19 infection rate in the region was 89 percent, as the country battles a surge of infections and communist authorities continue to conceal the true death toll figures.
Authorities in Henan, the country’s third most populous province, said at a Monday press conference that as of Jan. 6, the province’s infection rate was 89 percent, including 89.1 percent in cities and 88.9 percent in rural areas, provincial official media Zhengzhou Daily reported. Those figures mean that 88.5 million people out of the province’s total population of 99.4 million have been infected.
The figures align with other statements made by health officials about high infection rates in recent weeks. An official said in December that infections in large cities exceeded 50 percent, and hit 80 percent in China’s capital Beijing. A leaked document from the country’s top health body also estimated that around 250 million Chinese were infected with COVID in the first 20 days of December….