Last Update: January 20, 2023, 09:33 AM IST
A woman carries her mother out of a clinic in a village in Lazi, in Xi’an, Sichuan, China following strict measures to curb COVID-19 (Image: Reuters)
WHO said that there has been a big jump in the number of hospitalizations and the number of patients has increased by 70% in a week.
China has seen a big jump in COVID-19 hospitalizations in the week since January 15, the most since the pandemic began, according to a weekly report published by Reuters. World Health Organization on Thursday
However, the WHO said the nearly 60,000 additional COVID-related hospital deaths reported by China last week awaited “detailed provincial data until the week of reporting” and were not included in the tally.
The number of people diagnosed with the disease in China rose by 70% over the past week to 63,307, according to a World Health Organization report based on data presented by Beijing. This is China’s biggest weekly figure since the first outbreak of Kovid-19 three years ago.
In early December, Beijing abruptly ended its strict three-year anti-virus regime of frequent testing, travel bans and mass lockdowns after widespread protests in late November and a nationwide surge of 1.4 billion cases since then. are grown.
The WHO and others have said China is underreporting the scale of the outbreak and have repeatedly called for more detailed data, including deaths, excess mortality and genetic sequences.
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