The Chinese government released a new official assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday showing a drastic drop in coronavirus cases, with falls of more than 70 percent for those considered seriously ill.
The withdrawal in December of the main restrictions in the Asian giant, which put an end to its ‘zero COVID’ policy, led to an unprecedented rise in infections. Beijing kept quiet at the time, but simulations such as those of the London-based Airfinity institute show that the daily peak of cases could have been 4.2 million.
China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in its latest assessment that there were 2.86 million visits to medical centers on Dec. 23, as opposed to the approximately 63,000 there would have been on Monday of this week. This would be a decrease of about 98 percent, according to statistics reported by official media.
As for hospitalizations, they have fallen by 84.8 percent, with 248,000 on Monday compared to the peak of 1.62 million on January 5, while serious cases have gone from 128,000 to 36,000, 72 percent less. Deaths, meanwhile, have gone from 4,273 on January 4 to 896 this past Monday.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
