By Bernard Orr and Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) – The number of COVID patients needing critical care in China’s hospitals has peaked, health authorities said on Thursday, as millions travelled across the country for long-awaited reunions with families, raising fears of fresh outbreaks. There has been widespread scepticism over China’s official COVID data since it abruptly axed anti-virus controls last month that had shielded China’s 1.4 billion people from the disease for three years. China said last Saturday that nearly 60,000 people with COVID had died in hospitals between Dec. 8 an…