China reports more than 59,000 deaths from COVID-19

The health authorities of China reported that due to the regrowth of COVID-19 More than 59,000 deaths have been registered in that country, which is why the alarms have been set off in the face of the increase in deaths from this disease. These are the first alarming figures revealed by the Chinese government on the coronavirus pandemic.

Specifically, they explained that between December 8, 2022 and January 12 of this year, 59,938 deaths from COVID-19 were reported. In this sense, the Chinese health authorities indicated that the average age of the deceased he was 80 years old.

As reported in The Truth Newspreviously the World Health Organization (WHO) indicated that the outbreak of COVID-19 in China will not affect Europe, although it recommended taking precautions to prevent the spread of this disease in European territory.

COVID-19 outbreak in China

In addition, the health authorities of China noted that more than 90 percent of the deaths registered by COVID-19 were over 65 years of age and had comorbidities. It should be noted that this report does not include deaths caused by coronavirus that occurred outside the hospitals.

It was also specified that the serious cases of COVID-19 in the current outbreak spread throughout the country reached its peak on January 5, about three weeks after the authorities relaxed the politics of ‘zero covid’ that they maintained until then.

It should be noted that the rapid spread of COVID-19 in China has raised doubts about the credibility of the figures presented by the authorities of that country. Therefore, the WHO called on the Chinese government to be transparent about the status of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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