China reports almost 60,000 COVID-related deaths in past month
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2023 1:06 am
China reports almost 60,000 COVID-related deaths in past month
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/1 ... past-month
From December 8 to January 12, deaths related to the virus in Chinese hospitals totalled 59,938.
An elderly patient is pushed along a corridor of the emergency ward at a hospital in Beijing, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. China is on a bumpy road back to normal life as schools, shopping malls and restaurants fill up again with the easing of COVID-19 restriction. The abrupt end to testing and other measures came as hospitals were swamped with feverish, wheezing COVID-19 patients.
China's National Health Commission says more than 90 percent of people with COVID-19 who died also had cancer, heart or lung diseases, or kidney problems [File: Ng Han Guan/AP]
Published On 14 Jan 2023
China has reported nearly 60,000 deaths among COVID-affected people since early December after complaints it was failing to release data.
The toll from December 8 through Thursday consisted of 5,503 deaths due to respiratory failure caused by COVID-19 and 54,435 fatalities from other ailments combined with COVID-19, the National Health Commission announced on Saturday, adding that the “emergency peak” of its latest surge appears to have passed.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/1 ... past-month
From December 8 to January 12, deaths related to the virus in Chinese hospitals totalled 59,938.
An elderly patient is pushed along a corridor of the emergency ward at a hospital in Beijing, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. China is on a bumpy road back to normal life as schools, shopping malls and restaurants fill up again with the easing of COVID-19 restriction. The abrupt end to testing and other measures came as hospitals were swamped with feverish, wheezing COVID-19 patients.
China's National Health Commission says more than 90 percent of people with COVID-19 who died also had cancer, heart or lung diseases, or kidney problems [File: Ng Han Guan/AP]
Published On 14 Jan 2023
China has reported nearly 60,000 deaths among COVID-affected people since early December after complaints it was failing to release data.
The toll from December 8 through Thursday consisted of 5,503 deaths due to respiratory failure caused by COVID-19 and 54,435 fatalities from other ailments combined with COVID-19, the National Health Commission announced on Saturday, adding that the “emergency peak” of its latest surge appears to have passed.