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One-day tally of COVID cases in China hits 37 million: Report

A nurse pushes a bed outside a fever clinic at a hospital as COVID-19 outbreaks continue in Beijing [Thomas Peter/Reuters]

Nearly 37 million people in China may have been infected with COVID-19 on a single day this week, the Bloomberg news agency has reported, citing minutes from an internal meeting of the country’s National Health Commission held on Wednesday.

In all, the report which was published on Friday said about 18 percent of the country’s population – 248 million people – are likely to have contracted the virus in the first 20 days of December.

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