1. Financial Times:
Chinese officials estimate about 250 million people, or 18 per cent of the population, were infected with Covid-19 in the first 20 days of December, as Beijing abruptly dismantled restrictions that had contained the disease for almost three years.
The estimates — including 37 million people, or 2.6 per cent of the population, who were…
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