The number of victims is still increasing in China. The country reported, on Saturday January 21, nearly 13,000 deaths linked to Covid-19 in hospital between January 13 and 19.
In a press release, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) specifies that during this period, 681 patients died in hospital from respiratory failure caused by Covid and 11,977 from other illnesses combined. to the virus. This data does not include those who succumbed to the coronavirus at home.
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In mid-January, more than a month after the lifting of health restrictions, China had reported around 60,000 Covid-related deaths in medical institutions across the country between December 8, 2022 and January 12, 2023, an estimated toll undervalued in view of the reduction in controls.
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According to the British medical analysis company Airfinity, the daily number of Covid deaths in China is expected to climb to around 36,000 during the Lunar New Year holiday. Airfinity also estimates that more than 600,000 people have died from the disease since China dropped restrictions in December.
80% of the population already infected
Tens of millions of people have traveled across the country in recent days to reunite with families for the New Year festivities on Sunday, raising fears of the risk of a new explosion in the number of contaminations. Chinese transport authorities forecast that more than two billion trips would be completed in the month to February.
President Xi Jinping on Wednesday expressed concern about the spread of the virus in rural areas, many of which lack medicine and other medical resources.
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But although these movements can promote transmission, “The current epidemic wave has already infected around 80% of the population in the country”, said the CDC’s chief epidemiologist, Wu Zunyou, in a message posted on the Chinese social network Weibo on Saturday. According to him, “in the short term, for example, in the next two or three months, the possibility (…) of a second epidemic wave in the country is very small”.
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On Thursday, a National Health Commission official, Guo Yanhong, said China had passed the peak of Covid patient admissions to specialist fever clinics and emergency departments, including for the sick in critical situation.
