According to minutes from an internal meeting of China's National Health Commission held on Wednesday, as many as 248 million people, or nearly 18% of the population, likely contracted the virus in the first 20 days of December.
we could have teachers on strike. we could have junior doctors on strike, you know, it s not beyond the realms of possibility that we could be looking at a million workers on strike next year. and if that isn t a tipping point, then i genuinely don t know what is. china is insisting that covid infections are under control, despite growing signs of a huge surge since restrictions were eased. health officials say they re expecting a peak of infections within the next week. authorites have reported no new deaths for a third day running. joining me now is dr louise blair, head of vaccines and epidemiology at airfinity, a british health analysis company, which has made its own estimates about what likely to be going on in china. thank you forjoining us here in bbc
do not know what is. beijing is insisting that coronavirus infections are under control, despite growing signs of a huge surge since restrictions were eased across china. health officials say they re expecting a peak of infections within the next week but authorites have reported n0 new deaths for a third day running. dr louise blair is head of vaccines and epidemiology at airfinity. it s a british health analysis company. she told me her company has made its own estimates about what likely to be going on in china. what we are forecasting at the moment is around 1.5 million cases a day and approximately 7000 deaths per day in the whole of china. and this is a part of a growth curve and we expect cases to peak around