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Daily Mirror
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Alahna Kindred

'Thermonuclear' Chinese Covid outbreak may infect '10% of the world in next three months'

The current Covid-19 outbreak in China could infect 10 per cent of the world within the next three months, an epidemiologist and health economist has warned.

It comes as a shocking video footage shared online showed bodies piling up in hospitals and crematoriums in China, after the country recently loosened its extreme Covid containment policy.

Just two deaths from the virus were reported by Chinese authorities on Monday - but footage appeared to show a hospital’s corridors flooded with dead bodies on stretchers and patients being packed into wards.

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