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Nearly all of Beijing's 22 mn population to get Covid by January-end: Study

About 92% of the people in China's capital will have contracted Covid by the end of January, while 76% had already been infected by December 22, according to the study

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Bloomberg
Nearly all of Beijing’s 22 million population will have been infected with the coronavirus by the end of this month, a new study found, reflecting the rapid spread of China’s outbreak.

About 92% of the people in China’s capital will have contracted Covid by the end of January, while 76% had already been infected by Dec. 22, according to the study, which was published on Friday in the journal Nature Medicine.

The virus has been spreading at a faster pace in China after the government relaxed controls in November and abruptly abandoned its Covid Zero policy in December, according to the study.