INSIDE CHINA

The official report is deliberately vague about whether the influenza virus strain spreading in China is drug-resistant, a U.S. expert on the China CDC said.

Every year since COVID-19, a wave of respiratory infections has swept across China.

The document describes a new mutation in the hemagglutinin protein gene but lacks details, drawing concern from experts.

Experts say possible reasons include weakened immunity, vaccination side effects, stress, and other infectious diseases.

What the authorities really want to investigate is human bird flu infections in southern China, according to one expert.

‘This virus could create a highly extremely threatening new bioweapons agent and pandemic pathogen,’ a molecular biologist said.

‘There are very few people on the streets now; it’s very quiet,’ one resident in Shijiazhuang said.

Since the 2003 SARS epidemic, the Chinese regime’s approach to health crises has remained unchanged, a doctor told The Epoch Times.

In the absence of reliable health data, crowded hospitals have sparked fears among the public during the Lunar New Year holiday.

‘The problem is the Chinese government didn’t provide systematic data for the outside world to understand what is the real situation,’ said Sean Lin.

The virus outbreak in China coincides with the five-year anniversary of COVID-19, with the WHO recently renewing requests for China to share related data.

Meanwhile, the number of reported COVID-19 deaths in China remains orders of magnitude lower than is expected for a country of its population.

Zhang Zhan has been released from prison but remains under police surveillance, rights advocates say.

Members of the Chinese public continue to report more severe cases and sudden deaths in the country despite the regime’s cover-up.

China hasn’t released death and cremation data since the massive COVID-19 outbreak in December 2022, when the CCP suddenly abandoned all restrictions.