China Gives Up Counting All Covid Cases After Mass Tests End
- Country will no longer report new asymptomatic cases
- Official tally of infections collapsing despite virus spread
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China will stop releasing comprehensive data on new Covid cases after the dropping of mandatory testing meant the numbers no longer reflected reality.
The country will only report symptomatic cases from now on because it’s hard to gauge the number of those infected without symptoms in the absence of testing, the National Health Commission said in a statement on Wednesday.