Tedros said the weekly death rate had dropped below 10,000 in October but had been rising again since the start of December, while the lifting of Covid restrictions in China had led to a spike in deaths. China has stopped publishing daily COVID data amid reports of a huge spike in cases.
Provincial official Kan Quancheng revealed the figure. “As we enter the fourth year of the pandemic, we are certainly in a much better position now than we were a year ago, when the Omicron wave was at its peak, and more than 70,000 deaths were being reported to WHO each week,” he told the committee at the start of Friday’s meeting. Nearly 90 of people in Henan, China's third most populous province, have now been infected with Covid, local health officials say. Tedros, it said, “acknowledges the committee’s views that the Covid-19 pandemic is probably at a transition point and appreciates the advice of the committee to navigate this transition carefully and mitigate the potential negative consequences.”Įven prior to the meeting, the WHO chief had suggested the emergency phase of the pandemic is not over, pointing to surging numbers of deaths and warning that the global response to the crisis “remains hobbled”. BEIJING China is bracing for a new wave of Covid-19 infections that could see as many as 65 million cases per week by the time the surge peaks at the end of June. SYDNEY, June 8 (Xinhua) - A new study led by the University of Queensland (UQ) has shown that viruses, such as SARS-CoV-2, can.
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WHO says Covid remains an international emergency after spike in deaths amid China outbreak - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP Closeįollowing that meeting, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus “concurs with the advice offered by the committee regarding the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and determines that the event continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC),” the organisation said in a statement. COVID-19 can cause brain cell fusion, triggering malfunction: study. GENEVA: China may be struggling to keep a tally of Covid-19 infections as the country experiences a big spike in cases, a senior World Health Organization official said on Wednesday, amid concerns about a lack of data from the country.
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