China is yet to officially report any COVID deaths since Dec. 7 when the country abruptly ended many key tenets of its zero-COVID policy that had been championed by President Xi Jinping, following unprecedented public protests against the protocol
Hearses bearing the dead lined the driveway to a designated COVID-19 crematorium in the Chinese capital on Saturday while workers at the city’s dozen funeral homes were busier than normal, days after China reversed tight pandemic restrictions.
A U.S.-based research institute said this week that the country could see an explosion of cases and over a million people in China could die of COVID-19 in 2023. A sharp surge in deaths would test authorities’ efforts to move China away from endless testing, lockdowns and heavy travel restrictions, and realign with a world that has largely reopened to live with the disease.
A few meters away from the crematorium, in a funeral parlour, the Reuters journalist saw about 20 yellow body bags containing corpses on the floor. Reuters could not immediately establish if the deaths were due to COVID-19. Yet respected Chinese news outlet Caixin reported on Friday that two veteran state media journalists had died after contracting COVID-19 in Beijing, among the first known deaths since China dismantled most of its zero-COVID policies.Still, the National Health Commission on Saturday reported no change to its official COVID-19 death toll of 5,235 since the pandemic emerged in Wuhan province in late 2019.
As of Dec. 5, the proportion of seriously or critically ill COVID-19 patients had dropped to 0.18% of reported cases, Wu said, from 3.32% last year and 16.47% in 2020. China stopped publishing the number of asymptomatic cases from Wednesday, citing a lack of PCR testing among people with no symptoms.
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