So the title from NPR (National Propagandada Radio) article misleadingly states
China has stopped publishing daily COVID data amid reports of a huge spike in cases
Despite the text stating, in fact, that China hasn't stopped publishing COVID data. Rather a different agency would be reporting the data.
China's National Health Commission said in a statement that it would no longer publish the data daily beginning Sunday and that "from now on, the Chinese CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) will release relevant COVID information for reference and research."
One can read data in the Chinese CDC page with COVID infection statistics here. It looks like data reported from from the National Health Commission Page.
I fucking hate the West
The thing about the Chinese CDC taking over is just the second paragraph on the NPR article.
Worse than accepting western media at face value is just accepting western headlines at face value.
There's a legitimate change in policy, in terms of mandates on testing and co-mingling, that will erode the reliability of Chinese COVID statistics simply because they're no longer engaging with the problem so aggressively. But the degree and scale relative to Western nations is incomparable, primarily because Western nations never embraced such a long term Zero COVID strategy.
There's a conversation you can have about whether the bureaucracy's decision to step back on COVID enforcement was prudent. But you can't get any kind of useful analysis from NPR - much less their Headlines department. By now, you'd think folks on Hexbear would know better.
Oh well... Live and learn.