China reported nearly 13,000 coronavirus-related deaths in hospitals between January 13 and 19. A senior health official announced that the vast majority of the population had already contracted the virus. The figures do not include those who died from the virus at home
After China announced at the beginning of the month that almost 60,000 people died from corona in hospitals in the recent period, the Chinese announce 13,000 deaths from corona during one week between January 13 and 19. But there is widespread skepticism at the World Health Organization about these figures since China abruptly lifted its coronavirus control last month.
China’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement on Saturday that 681 hospitalized patients died of respiratory failure caused by corona infection, and 11,977 died of other diseases combined with corona infection during the period. The figures do not include those who died from the virus at home.
Airfinity, an independent forecasting firm, estimated that more than 600,000 people have died of the disease since China abandoned its zero-coronavirus policy in December. A senior health official said that China will not experience a second wave of corona in the next two to three months after nearly 80 percent of the population has already been infected with the virus.
“Although a large number of people traveling during the Spring Festival may promote the spread of the epidemic to some extent, the current wave of the epidemic has already infected about 80% of people in the country,” Wu Zunyu, chief epidemiologist at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a post on China’s Twitter-like Weibo platform. On Saturday.