Its health authorities China announced a large increase in the number of admissions of patients with Covid-19 in hospitals during the week of January 9-15, the longest since its inception pandemicaccording to a weekly report published yesterday Thursday (19/1) by World Health Organization.
The same report points out that the World Health Organization is still waiting for “province-by-province details” on the 60,000 deaths related to Covid-19 announced by Beijing last Saturday but not included in the overall tally. This figure was exclusively for deaths of patients in hospitals.
The number of hospitalized patients with Covid-19 stood at 63,307 in the week of January 9-15, up 70% from the previous week, according to the World Health Organization report citing official data from Beijing. This is a record number of hospitalizations in a week since the beginning of the pandemic about three years ago.
In early December, Beijing decided to end its strict policy to deal with the pandemic – with frequent spot checks, travel restrictions and local lockdowns – following a wave of protests in late November. Since then there has been a surge in cases in the vast Asian country of 1.4 billion people.
The World Health Organization has criticized Beijing for systematically downplaying the spread of Covid-19 in China, demanding detailed data on the number of deaths, mortality rates and mutations of the virus.
Source: News Beast
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