Dec 23 (Reuters) – Almost 37 million individuals in China could have been contaminated with COVID-19 on a single day this week, Bloomberg Information reported on Friday, citing estimates from the federal government’s prime well being authority.
About 248 million individuals, which is sort of 18% of the inhabitants, are prone to have contracted the virus within the first 20 days of December, the report mentioned, citing minutes from an inside assembly of China’s Nationwide Well being Fee held on Wednesday.
Reporting by Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru. Modifying by Jane Merriman
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