China Revises Covid Death Toll

[shri]

China said on Saturday nearly 60,000 people with COVID-19 had died in hospital since it abandoned its zero-COVID policy last month, a huge increase from previously reported figures that follows global criticism of the country's coronavirus data.

Between Dec. 8 and Jan. 12, the number of COVID-related deaths in Chinese hospitals totalled 59,938, Jiao Yahui, head of the Bureau of Medical Administration under the National Health Commission (NHC), told a media briefing.

Of those fatalities, 5,503 were caused by respiratory failure due to COVID and the remainder resulted from a combination of COVID and other diseases, she said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/...es-2023-01-14/

[AsianXpat0]

https://twitter.com/bibekbhandari/st...51905079922688

Apparently mentioning the Zero Covid success is taboo now. Shame too about Sixth Tone, it was the only China-based paper that felt credible when read. (To be fair I don’t read the Chinese-language based papers)

[AsianXpat0]

https://twitter.com/HongshenZhu/stat...65829217734656

[shri]

We are still interested in COVID stats?!? That's so 2022

[mrgoodkat]

https://twitter.com/HongshenZhu/stat...65829217734656

Zhejiang is only the 4th richest area. If he can't even get that right, how accurate is the rest of the tweet going to be?

[jgl]

Has the phrase Zero Covid been expunged from allowable lexicon these days?

I wouldn't be surprised, just haven't been paying attention.