China Reports Nearly 13,000 COVID-19 Deaths Last Week
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China reported nearly 13,000 Covid-related deaths in hospitals between January
13 and 19, after a top health official said the vast majority of the
population has already been infected by the virus.
China a week earlier said nearly 60,000 people had died with Covid in hospitals as of January 12, but there has been widespread skepticism over official data since Beijing abruptly axed anti-virus controls last month.
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China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement on
Saturday that 681 hospitalized patients had died of respiratory failure caused
by coronavirus infection, and 11,977 had died of other diseases combined with
infection over the period.
The figures do not include those who
died from the virus at home.
Airfinity, an independent forecasting
firm, has estimated daily Covid deaths in China will peak at around 36,000
over the Lunar New Year holiday.
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The firm also estimated that more than 600,000 people have died from the
disease since China abandoned the zero-Covid policy in December.
Tens of millions of people have traveled across the country in
recent days for long-awaited reunions with families to mark the biggest
holiday in the lunar calendar that fell on Sunday, raising fears of fresh
outbreaks.
But a top health official said China will not
experience a second wave of covid infections in the next two to three months
after millions return to villages to mark the Lunar New Year because nearly 80
per cent of the population has already been infected by the virus.
“Although a large number of people traveling during the Spring Festival may
promote the spread of the epidemic to a certain extent… the current wave of
the epidemic has already infected about 80 per cent of the people in the
country,” Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the China Center for Disease
Control and Prevention, said in a post on China’s Twitter-like Weibo platform
on Saturday.
“In the short term, for example, in the next two to
three months, the possibility of… a second wave of the epidemic across the
country is very small.”
China’s transport authorities have
predicted that more than two billion trips will be made this month into
February in one of the world’s largest mass movements of people.
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