Lunar New Year holiday trips inside China surged 74 per cent from last year after authorities scrapped COVID-19 travel curbs, state media reported on Saturday, though the number of journeys was still only half of pre-pandemic levels.
Between Jan. 20-26, a week that overlapped with six days of the holiday period, China registered 6,364 COVID-19-linked deaths, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on Saturday, compared to 12,658 a week earlier.Lunar New Year is the most important holiday of the year in China, when huge numbers of people working in prosperous coastal cities head to their hometowns and villages for family reunions.
Responding to criticism about its coronavirus data, China expanded its definition for COVID-19 death toll to include fatalities in hospitals caused by respiratory failure due to COVID-19 and those whose died from a combination of COVID-19 and other disease. Critics say this is still an underestimate as people who died at home are still excluded from the count.
This compares to around 130 million domestic trips during the holiday week last year, according to the transport ministry, but is still far below pre-pandemic levels: In the last Lunar New Year holiday before the novel coronavirus emerged in late 2019, some 420 million trips were made.
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