China's new Covid wave expected to peak in June at 11 million cases a week
Surge being fuelled by Omicron variant XBB likely to be much smaller than winter outbreak, according to UK-based health data firm Airfinity.
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Surge being fuelled by Omicron variant XBB likely to be much smaller than winter outbreak, according to UK-based health data firm Airfinity.
Pandemic as deadly as Covid could strike in next decade, Airfinity reported. A robust pandemic preparedness system is required to contain/control the emerging viruses, the report said. , Health News, Times Now
Coronavirus surge had become fierce and fast. china national health commission has so far confirmed just under 80,000 covid deaths, but that's only patients who died in hospitals. western analysts think it's a wild understatement. of the health analytics firm airfinity. >> we expect the number of deaths will peak in around one week ahead and it'll reach the 1 million mark. >> reporter: we may never know for sure especially as chinese doctors are under pressure not to list covid on death certificates. this week millions of people have been traveling back to their villages and towns for the luna...
Revised estimates by British based analytics company Airfinity place cumulative deaths in China at 708,000 deaths since the beginning of December.
Officials in China reported almost 13,000 deaths related to Covid in hospitals between January 13 and 19, adding to the 60,000 in the months before that