Chinese health officials say asymptomatic COVID cases have become impossible to track without mandatory testing, so the country will stop reporting them.
its strict "zero COVID" policy this month by reducing lockdown requirements, rules surrounding isolation at state quarantine centers and eliminating regular mandatory testing.that in the absence of mandatory testing, asymptomatic cases have become impossible to track.
"It's impossible to get accurate statistics for asymptomatic cases given the fact that many asymptomatic cases choose not to take nucleic acid tests," a notice on China's National Health Commission's website reads.The veracity of the Chinese Communist Party's official COVID case and death figures have been long under question and have not been independently verified.
Still, asymptomatic cases have so far accounted for the vast majority of the country's reported new cases, according toUnder the country's "zero COVID" policy, people who tested positive for the virus — even those who did not present symptoms — were forced to isolate in a government facility.
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