 League documents reveal largest COVID-19 outbreak in China. Around 250 million people in China were infected with COVID-19 in December. US media reported on Friday, with reference to the leaked documents of China's health officials. This figure accounts for around 18% of China's 1.4 billion population, marking the largest COVID-19 outbreak to date globally. This is in stark contrast to the official report by China's National Health Commission, NHC, which puts the number of COVID-19 cases at 62,592 in the first 20 days of December. According to Financial Times and Bloomberg News, 37 million people were infected on Tuesday alone, in contrast to the official number of 3,049 new infections reported that day. The figures cited by the US media were allegedly voiced during the internal meetings of China's National Health Commission held on Wednesday. Their authenticity has not been revealed yet, and the NHC has not commented on some. The estimates follow China's decision at the start of December to end its strict zero COVID policy, which had been in place for almost three years.