Relevant information would now be released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention for reference and research purposes, the commission said on Sunday. How often this should happen remained open. No reasons were given for the move.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention said a little later that no new deaths were recorded for the mainland on Saturday, like the day before.
In China The omicron variant of the virus is rampant after the government abruptly abandoned its strict zero-Covid policy and lifted stringent testing regulations and travel restrictions. Many people welcomed the easing. However, the health system is not sufficiently prepared for the wave of infections. Hospitals are overcrowded and pharmacies are short of medication. The situation is likely to worsen when the Chinese New Year is celebrated in January and numerous people travel to their families.
Due to the spread of the corona virus, the Chinese economic metropolis Shanghai called on the population to refrain from traveling on the Christmas weekend and to stay at home.
Nevertheless, before stopping publication, the Health Commission had not reported a single new death nationwide for four days in a row and most recently on Saturday 4128 new cases of infection with symptoms. In addition China narrowed its definition of reporting deaths to only count pneumonia and respiratory failure caused by the virus.
Health experts around the world take a critical view of this. The UK-based health data company Airfinity said this week that the actual number of new infections is likely to be more than a million per day, and the number of deaths is more than 5,000. This is in “strong contrast” to the official data.
These have become less and less reliable. After record cases were recorded in late November, the Health Commission stopped reporting asymptomatic cases in December. This made it more difficult to track cases of infection. In addition, as a result of the easing, significantly less testing is carried out.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has not received any data on hospitalizations since the easing. This may be due to authorities struggling to count cases, according to the WHO.
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