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60,000 people have died of Covid in China since covid restrictions stopped in December

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Last updated: January 16, 2023 12:55 am
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Published: January 16, 2023
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The National Health Commission (NHC) of China says close to 60,000 people have died of Covid in China since the country abruptly abandoned its tight “zero-Covid” policy in early December.

Jiao Yahui, head of the NHC’s medical affairs department, said in Beijing on Saturday January 14, that China recorded 59,938 Covid-related death between December 8 and January 12.

Of those deaths 5,503 came from respiratory failure caused by Covid infections, and 54,435 were people infected with Covid as well as underlying diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

In the past, China previously listed only those Covid patients who succumbed with respiratory failure as having died of Covid.

In the month after December 8, China reported only 37 deaths from local Covid cases, according to figures released on the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website despite overwhelming evidence showing that the outbreak has overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums amid apparent Covid surges in multiple cities.

The World Health Organization and the United States have accused China of “under-representing” the severity of its current outbreak, while top global health officials have also urged Beijing to share more data about the spread of Covid in China, where reports have emerged of overwhelmed hospitals and funeral homes.

On Saturday, WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke to Chinese Health Minister Ma Xiaowei.

Chinese officials shared information including the latest numbers on outpatient clinics, hospitalizations, patients requiring emergency treatment and critical care, and hospital deaths, the WHO said in a statement.

“WHO is analyzing this information, which covers early December 2022 to January 12, 2023, and allows for a better understanding of the epidemiological situation and the impact of this wave in China,” it said.

The WHO also requested a more detailed breakdown of data by province over time and asked the Chinese government to continue to share further sequences of the coronavirus with open access databases.

Jiao, the NHC medical official, said fever clinical visits and Covid hospitalizations in China have already peaked.

The NHC said hospitalizations of Covid-19 patients also peaked on January 5, 2023, when 1.63 million people was hospitalized, and 1.27 million Covid patients were still in hospital as of January 12, Jiao added.

 

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