IAN BIRREL: Astonishing leaked figures from Chinese health authorities estimate that 250 million people - almost one in five citizens - caught Covid in the first 20 days of last month.
The immense scale of the social crime unfolding across China as a result of the Chinese Communist Party abandoning its Zero-COVID policy is increasingly coming into focus.
China's state media is struggling and censors are working overtime as Beijing gropes for a coherent narrative in the wake of the sudden reversal of its hallmark zero-Covid policy.