News Forum - China reports highest-daily rise in new Covid-19 infections since pandemic began

[Thaiger]

An outbreak of Covid-19 infections in the south-western city of Xian has led to a 21-month high in China’s daily case numbers. According to a Reuters report, the city has become the country’s latest hotspot in the pandemic. Its 13 million residents are now entering day 5 of lockdown, with 155 new cases of community transmission. Xian reported 485 symptomatic community transmission infections between December 9 and 25, according to the Reuters report. Officials have responded with strict restrictions aimed at flattening the curve as Beijing continues to pursue its zero-Covid strategy. In Xian, residents are prohibited from leaving town […]

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[Poolie]

162 cases amongst 1.4 bn. America on the other hand.......

[Fin87]

10 minutes ago, Poolie said:

162 cases amongst 1.4 bn. America on the other hand.......

Something to think about right?…

[Poolie]

3 minutes ago, Fin87 said:

Something to think about right?…

No, it was just to show how Reuters exaggerate reality. Shamelessly.

[BlueSphinx]

According to Worldometers there were 206 cases recorded yesterday (26-12) in China. On a population of 1.4 billion, that amounts to 1 case per 6.7 million people.  To put this in perspective > the total population of Norway  is 5.4 million and Denmark is 5.8 million. 

[Manu]

4 minutes ago, BlueSphinx said:

According to Worldometers there were 206 cases recorded yesterday (26-12) in China. On a population of 1.4 billion, that amounts to 1 case per 6.7 million people.  To put this in perspective > the total population of Norway  is 5.4 million and Denmark is 5.8 million. 

Yeah but then the headline is "China reports highest-daily rise in new Covid-19 infections since pandemic began". It means nothing else but a "news" (that is not one) being only sensationalism. It has been already 2 years of this mad fear propaganda all over the world mainsteam media with no sign of slowing down. I wonder when (if?) covid finally disapears what these same media will be talking about...??

[Manu]

10 minutes ago, Transam said:

Isn't the thread about the city of Xian, so what's the 1.4 billion about...?...

Well read the headline of the article then... It says clearly China not Xian.

[AlexPTY]

1 hour ago, Thaiger said:

An outbreak of Covid-19 infections in the south-western city of Xian has led to a 21-month high in China’s daily case numbers. According to a Reuters report, the city has become the country’s latest hotspot in the pandemic. Its 13 million residents are now entering day 5 of lockdown, with 155 new cases of community transmission. Xian reported 485 symptomatic community transmission infections between December 9 and 25, according to the Reuters report. Officials have responded with strict restrictions aimed at flattening the curve as Beijing continues to pursue its zero-Covid strategy. In Xian, residents are prohibited from leaving town […]

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3x less cases than in Thailand yesterday. What's the news? 

[Poolie]

Not news at all. That's my point. It's Reuters trying to induce panic.

[Rookiescot]

You would have to be dumb to believe the official Chinese figures.

[Cabra]

China has been managing the message since the start... seemingly under reporting cases and deaths. What's real or not real is up to your imagination. It does seem newsworthy that they are coming out with this somewhat dire news now, and locking down their people again. Always makes we wonder what they know (seeing as this virus originates from there)

[Poolie]

Ah the old 'China is lying' trope. Might have come directly from Reuters itself. Without evidence of course.

[Chatogaster]

1 hour ago, AlexPTY said:

3x less cases than in Thailand yesterday. What's the news? 

China is one of the very few countries that still have a harsh zero-Covid instead of a "flatten the curve" approach. This is a new record that raises the probability that containment fails, which would inevitably lead to a change of strategy. That makes it at least somewhat newsworthy (although personally I'm fairly indifferent as to the outcome). Or perhaps I'm over-analyzing, in which case the article is just an ordinary piece of useless information.
 

[ChrisBBQ]

Why would anyone believe any statistic coming out of the PRC?  They manufacture data on a daily basis as part of their propaganda machine

[BlueSphinx]

6 minutes ago, ChrisBBQ said:

Why would anyone believe any statistic coming out of the PRC?  They manufacture data on a daily basis as part of their propaganda machine

... and why would Reuters then take it over? 

[dmacarelli]

Not to make light of this, but it seems like anything Covid related is so over the top, these days. There are more than likely more people dying of heartburn, backaches, or super rare diseases, than Covid right now in China. Hello. Give it a rest. OK? 

Edited December 27, 2021 by dmacarelli

[Poolie]

16 minutes ago, ChrisBBQ said:

Why would anyone believe any statistic coming out of the PRC?  They manufacture data on a daily basis as part of their propaganda machine

Hooray! Cracking first post from a true _____ (insert as appropriate).

[Rain]

6 hours ago, Poolie said:

162 cases amongst 1.4 bn. America on the other hand.......

Which is never reported or covered - that would make their ever-present comparisons look rather ridiculous. 

Add: UK and Germany to this list, as well.

[DiJoDavO]

5 hours ago, AlexPTY said:

3x less cases than in Thailand yesterday. What's the news? 

It's supposed to look scary

Buzz words CHINA!!! HIGHEST DAILY RISE!!! 

What? Oh 485 cases.

Where? Oh just a city. 

But... but....HOTSPOT!!!!

But wouldn't the vaccines help them like the news told us?

ANTI VAXXER!!! 

I have had my vaccines. 

RACIST!!!! 

Just a typical conversation in 2021. Wonder about the conversations that'll take place in 2022.

[Poolie]

Sadly, that's how shallow people have become.

[NCC1701A]

7 hours ago, Thaiger said:

An outbreak of Covid-19 infections in the south-western city of Xian has led to a 21-month high in China’s daily case numbers.

everything going according to plan then. 

[Rain]

40 minutes ago, Poolie said:

Sadly, that's how shallow people have become.

Conditioned culturally inflicted ignorance. 

[Rain]

21 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

everything going according to plan then. 

Sucked right in....

[dmacarelli]

On 12/26/2021 at 10:49 PM, Transam said:

....I could be wrong, but I think this thread is about Covid,

"SYBIL, is this thread about Covid, gawd, Manuel , is this thread about Covid"....

And my point was about Covid. 

[Freeduhdumb]

On 12/26/2021 at 9:54 PM, Thaiger said:

485 symptomatic community transmission infections between December 9 and 25

485 cold symptoms or actual sick people? A more useful number would be the number of symptomatic persons requiring hospital admission. The second useful number would be the amount of persons admitted to intensive care, and the third and final number, no pun intended, would be how many deaths. "Cases" and "infections" and "symptomatic" without the breakdown of the aforementioned classifications really only tells us that there is no real emergency here. Again, are we talking about a majority of those 485 people with sore throats and the sniffles only?