Sharjah24 - Reuters: As the flagship newspaper for the Communist Party on Wednesday urged citizens for a "final victory" over the virus, international health experts sought to ascertain the specifics of China's raging COVID-19 epidemic and how to stop a further spread.
China's axing of its stringent virus curbs last month has unleashed COVID on a 1.4 billion population that has little natural immunity having been shielded from the virus since it emerged in the central city of Wuhan three years ago.
Many funeral homes and hospitals say they are overwhelmed, and international health experts predict at least one million deaths in China this year, but China has reported five or fewer deaths a day since the policy U-turn.
"That is totally ridiculous," 66-year-old Beijing resident who only gave his last name Zhang said of the official death toll.
"Four of my close relatives died. That's only from one family. I hope the government will be honest with the people and the rest of the world about what’s really happened here."
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