COVID cases absent from official statistics in China appear online

The World

In China, the government has relented on its zero-COVID-19 policy. That has led to a massive spike in cases that don’t appear in government statistics, but have begun to appear in videos and images across the internet. The World’s host Marco Werman talks through the story that some of these videos tell.

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