Henan province has a population of nearly 99 million people, government records show.
, a senior health official said Monday, in the latest description of how the virus ripped through the world's largest population in mere weeks.
"As of January 6, 2023, the province's COVID infection rate was 89 percent," Kan told a press conference. The Omicron subvariant BA.5.2 remained dominant, he said, with infections reaching 89.1 percent of urban and 88.9 percent of rural residents. The official estimate means some 88 million people have or have had COVID. Henan's 99 million population ranks third among's provinces, behind southern Guangdong's 127 million and eastern Shandong's 102 million. China has a population of 1.4 billion people.
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