People across China crowded into trains and buses for one of its busiest days of travel in years, feeding fears of new surges in a raging COVID outbreak that officials say has hit its peak.
Hospital, critical cases dropping, authorities saySome fear travel season could see infections surge
That policy U-turn, which followed historic protests against the government's tough anti-virus curbs, unleashed COVID on a population of 1.4 billion that had been largely shielded from the disease since it emerged in the city of Wuhan in late 2019. Her comments came on the eve of one of the most frenetic travel days in China since the pandemic erupted in late 2019, as millions of city-dwellers travel to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year holiday that officially begins on Saturday.
China's internet regulator said this week it would censor any "fake information" about the spread of the virus that could cause "gloomy" sentiment during Lunar New Year festivities. But in a news conference on Thursday, health officials said the number of COVID patients reporting to hospital had peaked with more than 40% fewer people being treated with critical conditions on Jan. 17 compared with a peak on Jan. 5.
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