In China, the number of daily deaths linked to Covid-19 has fallen by almost 80% since the beginning of January according to the authorities, the sign that the last wave of contaminations which hit the country since December is starting to spread. mitigate.
Chinese hospitals recorded 896 deaths from the coronavirus on Monday, down 79% from Jan. 4, the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a statement on Wednesday.
The number of serious cases in hospitals also fell by 72%, from 128,000 on January 5 to 36,000 on Monday, according to the CDC.
This decline in coronavirus-related deaths comes after the peak of the epidemic wave was reached in late December and early January, local governments and media reported.
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But authorities later warned of a new spike in infections after the Lunar New Year, leading to mass movements of people who could spread the virus.
13,000 people died in one week
Since Beijing abruptly abandoned its "
zero Covid
" policy last month, a wave of Covid-19 has swept through the country.
Last week, the CDC said nearly 13,000 people had died of Covid-19 between January 13 and January 19, adding to the previously reported figure of around 60,000 people who succumbed to the virus in hospitals in just a short time. more than a month.
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Analysts, however, believe that these figures represent only part of the toll, given China's narrow definition of deaths attributed to Covid-19 and official estimates that large swaths of the population have been infected.
