Five-day COVID-19 lockdown imposed in Pyongyang

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1. Oh my goodness, I just looked at NYTimes (no paywall) - China is reporting a ton of cases and deaths

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all of a sudden, and its way spiking the total world statistics --

World: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html
(no paywall, no quota)

China: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/china-covid-cases.html
Jan 24: 1,741,739 new cases, 72,596 new deaths

I was going to comment that East Asia has long been a world Covid hotspot (specifically Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan, though I'm glad these 3 have come down a long way), when I noticed the China reporting surge.

It doesn't show any reporting from N. Korea, but apparently that they have a big problem is something they can't hide anymore.

Dunno, I'm just talking about what the maps and tables say.

Edited to addI looked this morning (1130a ET Jan 25), and the enormous spikeup on Jan 24 is gone, both in the China data and the world data.