China’s National Sanitary Commission on Saturday 59,938 deaths It’s about covid between December 8th last year and January 12th this year, when authorities began to loosen restrictions on the pandemic.
The average age of the deceased registered at medical centers, according to agency officials 80.3 years oldHe gets the Global Times today.
Likewise, in 90.1% of deaths over 65 years oldand more than 90% suffered underlying diseasesAccording to the commission.
The body explained that he was running PCR tests it was stated that the causes of death from the virus were respiratory failure (5,503) or underlying diseases that worsened after covid developed (54.435).
The agency also assured that there are serious cases of covid in the country this Saturday. The current epidemic is spreading across the country They peaked on January 5, nearly three weeks after authorities loosened the ‘zero covid’ policy they had up until then.
there was that day 128,000 serious cases, and on the 12th of the month 105,000 serious casesaccording to commission officials.
The rapid spread of the virus in China in recent weeks has aroused suspicion. reliability of official figures, They reported that despite multiple scenes of high hospital pressure so far, they have only recently reported a handful of deaths from the disease.
Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom GhebreyesusHe made sure last week that China did not give the exact number of deaths from covid in the current epidemic, making it impossible to know the true extent of the disease even globally.
China argues it shares its data “in a clear, punctual and transparent manner” Since the start of the pandemic, he has asked the international community to refrain from “politicizing the pandemic” due to restrictions such as the requirement for some countries to offer PCR testing prior to travel to travelers from the Asian country.
According to a study conducted at Peking University, approximately 900 million people They are already infected with covid in China after the country abolished the ‘zero covid’ policy and opted for looser control of the pandemic.
But other Chinese experts believe that the highest incidence of covid cases in China will continue. “Until February or March”, as predicted recently by Zeng Guang, former chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control.