Scientists have predicted that almost everyone in Beijing will fall ill with COVID by February

In the capital of CHINA21.8 million people live, three-quarters of them became ill with CORONAVIRUS by the end of December, almost all will become infected by the end of January, scientists have found. They came to the conclusion that each sick person can infect 3 more,

Nine out of ten (92.3%) residents of the Chinese capital Beijing will become ill with coronavirus before the end of January, while 75.7% of Beijingers became infected by the infection by December 22, according to a study published in Nature Medicine. it was conducted on the basis of creating a dynamic model of transmission of coronavirus and the results of online surveys among the sick.

After the announcement by the Chinese authorities of "20 measures" to switch from a "zero tolerance" policy to covid-19 , the reproduction rate of the virus rose to 3.44 - each sick person can infect 3.44 people, the publication said.

According to statistics for 2020, the population of Beijing was 21.8 million people.

China reports 60,000deaths from covid after the abolition of “zero tolerance” Society

Chinese authorities began easing the harsh restrictions implied by the "zero tolerance" policy in early December following protests. The abrupt lifting of measures led to a new outbreak of the disease: in December, almost 250 million people in China were infected with COVID-19, BLOOMBERG reported. Official statistics did not confirm these data, until mid-January, Beijing reported only 5241 deaths during the entire period of the pandemic in China. At the same time, in the middle of the month, the PRC authorities reported the death over the past month of almost 60 thousand people who had an infection, of which 5.5 thousand died from heart failure, and the rest from a combination of other diseases with COVID-19.

Crematoria in Beijing, Shanghai and other major cities of the republic were overcrowded at the beginning of 2023, a shadow business emerged in the country for cremation out of turn at an increased price. Lines lined up at the country's crematoria.

The World HEALTH Organization criticized the Chinese authorities in January, pointing out that the data published by Beijing do not fully reflect the true development of the situation, primarily the mortality rate.

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