China is pressing ahead with its abrupt exit from the zero-COVID policy as the country—and its neighbors—brace for a peak in infections.
. The NHC officially reported a combined 62,592 symptomatic cases over the same period.
In Qingdao, a city of 10 million in Shandong province, top health official Bo Tao put new daily cases at roughly 500,000 as of last Friday.about the number of fatalities in the current outbreak. New guidance issued by China's national health authority this month narrowed the definition of COVID deaths to exclude those who die with underlying conditions, restricting measures still used by other countries to count deaths by the virus.
Models of China's present and coming COVID waves have predicted between 1 to 2 million deaths through the end of 2023 as Beijing presses ahead with a hasty. But it's unclear whether the phenomenon would ever be reflected in the official numbers, especially in more rural parts of the country.
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