The number of daily Covid-19 deaths in China has fallen by nearly 80 per cent since the start of the month, authorities have said, in a sign that the country’s unprecedented infection surge may have started to abate.
A wave of virus cases has washed over the world’s most populous nation since Beijing abruptly ended its zero-Covid policy last month. Beijing’s figures are believed to only represent a fraction of the true toll, given China’s narrow definition of a Covid death and official estimates that swathes of the population have been infected.
There were 896 deaths attributable to the virus in hospitals on Monday, a decline of 79 per cent from January 4, China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement on Wednesday.Severe cases in hospitals also dwindled to 36,000 by Monday, representing a 72 per cent drop from a high of 128,000 on January 5, the CDC said.
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