COVID-19 cases in China increased more than 160 percent in May, according to the latest official data from the Chinese communist regime. But Chinese residents across the country continue to report to The Epoch Times and on social media that they believe the situation is more serious than what authorities have acknowledged.
The Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) released its national COVID-19 epidemic data for May on June 5, reporting 440,662 cases, including 606 severe cases and seven deaths, soaring above April’s 168,507 cases, 340 severe cases, and nine deaths.
“The number of newly confirmed cases reported daily fluctuated up to the peak on May 26 and then fluctuated down,” the China CDC said, while identifying the main epidemic strain as NB.1.8.1—a sixth-generation sub-branch of the XDV Omicron variant….