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Officially there are relatively low numbers of intensive care cases but ‘anecdotally ICUs are filling up’
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Officially there are relatively low numbers of intensive care cases but ‘anecdotally ICUs are filling up’
Taichung professor recommends Taiwan impose 3-day quarantine on arriving passengers from China.Omicron subvariant BF.7 has such a high R number that one person can spread to 18 others | 2022-12-22 14:51:00
BEIJING — Dozens of hearses queued outside a Beijing crematorium on Wednesday (Dec 21), even as China reported no new Covid-19 deaths in its growing outbreak, sparking criticism of its virus accounting as the capital braces for a surge of cases. After widespread protests, the country of 1.4 billion people this month began dismantling its unpopular "zero-Covid" lockdown and testing...
Some of the first projections since China U-turned on zero Covid suggest hundreds of thousands will die in the coming months, with immunity from vaccinations low.
The Asian giant only counts deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure in its official COVID-19 death toll, practice health experts say is questionable now that we know how the illness works.