China reported a big jump in COVID-19 hospitalizations in the week to Jan. 15 since the pandemic began, according to a weekly report published by the World Health Organization on Thursday.
However, the WHO said it awaited “different provincial data until the week of reporting” on the nearly 60,000 additional COVID-related hospital deaths reported by China last week and did not include them in the tally. .
The number of people diagnosed with the disease in China rose by 70% to 63,307 over the past week, according to a World Health Organization report based on data presented by Beijing. This is China’s biggest weekly figure since the first outbreak of Kovid-19 three years ago.
In early December, Beijing abruptly ended its strict three-year anti-virus regime of frequent testing, travel bans and mass lockdowns after widespread protests in late November and cases in the country of 1.4 billion have since plummeted. developed.