Covid deaths

2023 - 1 - 16

China's True COVID Death Toll Estimated To Be in Hundreds of ... (TIME)

China, which narrowed the definition of COVID mortality after it dismantled its zero tolerance approach, reported 60000 deaths during its current outbreak.

21 and involves millions of people traveling to their hometowns, could increase its spread, said Ali Mokdad, a professor at the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation and chief strategy officer for population health at the University of Washington. The rest died of underlying diseases following a Covid infection, the agency said. He also asked the country to continue sharing such information and provide a more detailed breakdown of data by province over time. Reports of overwhelmed crematoriums around the country suggest excess mortality is at a high level. “It would be the lowest of any country/region abandoning a zero Covid policy.” Using a report from the National School of Development at Peking University that found 64% of the population was infected by mid-January, he estimated 900,000 people would have died in the previous five weeks based on a conservative 0.1% case fatality rate.

The world needs China to come clean about its covid deaths (The Washington Post)

Until that point, Chinese officials had reported just 37 covid deaths since Dec. 7, when all testing, quarantine and lockdown measures were lifted. Suddenly ...

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China confirms – the number of deaths caused by Covid-19 has ... (bnn-news.com)

Beijing has confirmed that since the beginning of December Covid-19 has caused almost 60 thousand deaths and the virus is still raging.

China has received extensive criticism for the lack of transparency and incomplete data on the Covid-19 wave in the country. In December, China changed its approach to allowing death to be caused by Covid-19, and officially considered only respiratory arrest directly caused by the virus as such. The WHO has called on Beijing to continue sharing information and more accurate data.

WHO recommends that China monitor excess COVID-19 mortality (Reuters)

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday it recommended that China monitor excess mortality from COVID-19 to gain a fuller picture of the impact ...

"But it would be even more important to get full GSD (genetic sequence data) of circulating virus in China. That's the really big global concern." agency told Reuters in a statement when asked about China.

China Covid: How many cases and deaths are there? (Yahoo News Australia)

China has released a new Covid death figure, but there are concerns it is an underestimate.

China reports huge rise in deaths of people with COVID after data ... (FISM TV)

Of those fatalities, 5503 were caused by respiratory failure due to COVID and the remainder resulted from a combination of COVID and other diseases, ...

The number of severe cases had also peaked, she added, though they remained at a high level, and patients were mostly elderly. 15, or a recovery to 70.3% of 2019 levels. It expects a Spring Festival boom in tourism. Heart attacks or cardiovascular diseases causing the death of infected people would not get that classification. The U.N. A health official said on Saturday that COVID fever and emergency hospitalizations had peaked and the number of hospitalized patients was continuing to decline.