The China Center for Disease Control (CDC) said Thursday that the number of deaths and hospitalizations from Covid-19 is on a “downward trend,” after peaking in the country in recent weeks.
The daily number of hospital deaths dropped from a high of 4,273 on Jan. 4 to 434 on Jan. 30, a decrease of 89.9%, the CDC said.
The number of hospital admissions for the disease reached 1.6 million on January 5, when it began to decline, reaching 144,000, registered on January 30, a drop of 91.1%, it added.
The number of people hospitalized with severe symptoms peaked at 128,000, also on January 5, before falling to 14,000 late last month.
The CDC also assured that “no new variants of the virus were detected.”
Chinese and international experts have warned that the Lunar New Year festivities, this year between January 21 and 27, could cause a new wave of infections and hospital pressure in rural areas, with few health resources, due to the high number of displacements .
British health data analysis company Airfinity forecast that the country could record around 36,000 deaths a day during that holiday week.
The CDC recorded 6,364 deaths from Covid-19 in hospitals between January 20 and 26.
Faced with growing popular discontent and falling economic data, the Chinese authorities opted for an accelerated dismantling of the zero Covid strategy, which had governed the country for almost three years, with measures that included blocking entire cities for weeks. or months, and constant mass tests.
The sudden removal of restrictions at the beginning of last December, without mitigation strategies or prior warning, led to a wave of infections. According to estimates from different local governments, up to 90% of the population will have been infected, in some provinces, in just over a month.
Source: TSF
