China announced a slight easing of its zero-COVID rules on November 11, 2022, and then a major relaxation on December 7, 2022. We estimate that the ensuing wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections caused 1.41 million deaths in China during December 2022–February 2023, substantia...
But researchers who have been studying the pandemic say that China has vastly undercounted its deaths from the disease. Reporting from theNew York Timesrounded up four separate academic studies looking at China’s most recent COVID wave that accelerated after the government relaxed its Zer...
Boosting vaccination rates, widespread mask use and reimposing some restrictions on movement could reduce the number of deaths. By Smriti Mallapaty Twitter Facebook Email Up to one million people in China could die from COVID-19 over the next few months, according to some of the first ...
A recent study says that China could risk up to 1.5 million deaths if it were to drop its Zero-COVID policy. The peer-reviewed research was conducted by scientists in China and the US. Their predictions however exclude the use of any safety measures, such as continuing...
There were a total of 59,938 COVID-related deaths between December 8, 2022 and January 12 this year, Jiao Yahui, head of the Bureau of Medical Administration under the National Health Commission, told a press conference ...
If China drops its current anti-COVID strategy, the researchers predicted, peak demand on intensive care unit would be 15.6 times the existing capacity, causing more than 1.5 million deaths. The study also pointed out that protecting vulnerable individuals by ensuring accessibility to vaccines and ...
China reported 59,938 COVID-19 related deaths at hospitals from Dec 8 to Thursday, a health official said on Saturday. Jiao Yahui, head of the National Health Commission's medical administration bureau, said that 5,503 fatalities were caused by respiratory failure induced by the infection, and...
The year 2023 is the first year to fully implement the guiding principles of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a year for economic recovery and development following three years of COVID-19 prevention and control. Faced with complex and grave international env...
We aimed to explore the clinial characteristics of deaths with COVID-19 pneumonia Methods: We abstracted and analyzed epidemiological, demographic, clinical, and laboratory data from 83 death cases with COVID-19 pneumonia in East hospital of Wuhan university Renmin hospital,between January 26, 2020,...
Meanwhile, the estimate of 250mn cases raised further doubts about the accuracy of official Covid statistics and how authorities account for deaths from the disease. The NHC reported just 4,103 new local cases on Saturday for the day prior, with no Covid-related deaths for a second consecutiv...