Patients infected with Covid-19 wait at a clinic in Wengji, a village in Yunnan province, south China, January 11, 2023. CHRISTMAS CELIS / AFP
In China, the number of daily deaths linked to Covid-19 has fallen by almost 80% since early January, authorities said, in a sign that the latest wave of infections to hit the country since December 2022 was about to begin. ease up. But analysts believe Beijing is reporting only part of the human toll of the epidemic, given the narrow criteria used to attribute a death to Covid-19 and official estimates that entire populations have been infected.
Chinese hospitals recorded 896 deaths from the new coronavirus on Monday, Jan. 23, a 79% decrease from Jan. 4, the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a statement released on Wednesday . The number of serious cases in hospitals also fell 72%, from 128,000 on Jan. 5 to 36,000 on Monday, according to the CDC.
This drop in deaths from Covid-19 comes after the epidemic peaked in late December and early January, local governments and media reported. However, authorities later warned of a new surge in infections after the Lunar New Year, prompting mass movements of people who could spread the virus.
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A wave of Covid-19 has swept the country since Beijing abruptly abandoned its zero-Covid policy last month. Last week, the CDC announced that nearly 13,000 people died from Covid-19 between January 13 and 19, adding to the previously reported figure of around 60,000 people succumbing to the virus in hospitals in just over a month are.
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