“Beijing forms ‘herd immunity’ for COVID-19”…China’s contradictory “claims”

At the end of last year, when the COVID-19 virus infection was at its peak, the Chinese government claimed that "the number of new infections per day was only '2000'," but most of the people were infected this time. It conveyed a contradictory statement that it was possible to "form herd immunity" by doing so. As a result, there are growing voices that the Chinese government under-reported the actual number of COVID-19 cases.

According to the Internet version of China's Central People's Radio on February 1st, the deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control told reporters the day before, "The epidemic has passed its peak in Beijing. It formed a temporary herd immunity."

70-80% of Beijing's total population must be infected with COVID-19 to form herd immunity. If the population of Beijing is 22 million, then "about 17 million people have been infected with COVID-19." This is equivalent to 6.5 times the cumulative number of infected people in China totaled by the Chinese government, which is about 2 million.

Furthermore, even if you get COVID-19 once, your immunity will weaken over time, and mutant strains will appear one after another. A mass infection would have to be realized.

However, the Chinese government announced that even last year, when COVID-19 was at its peak, "the average daily number of new infections across China was only around 2,000."