ROME, 13 JAN – About 900 million people in China were infected with the coronavirus up to 11 January, according to a study by Peking University cited by the BBC. The report estimates that 64% of the country’s population has contracted Covid. The hardest hit is Gansu province, where 91% of people are infected, followed by Yunnan (84%) and Qinghai (80%). And the situation could get worse as hundreds of millions of Chinese are about to travel to their hometowns – many for the first time since the start of the pandemic – ahead of the Lunar New Year on January 23. (HANDLE).
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