The Chinese regime defends its statistics on the COVVI-19, criticized abroad. Friday, only 5,500 positive cases and one death were identified.
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Chinese health authorities said Thursday, December 29, that their data on the number of COVVI-19 deaths had always been transparent, despite a gap with the reality of statistics so far given by Beijing.
“China has always published its data on the deaths of COVID-19 and serious cases in a desire for openness and transparency,” said Jiao Yahaha, High Health Commission said on Thursday evening (NHC ), the equivalent of the Ministry of Health. His remarks are reported by the New China State Agency.
The country is going through a wave of unprecedented contamination since the brutal abandonment, at the beginning of the month, of its so -called “zero covid” policy. Latest relaxation to date: the end of the quarantines compulsory on January 8 at the arrival in Chinese territory.
A disease control body listed 5,500 new cases in China on Friday and only one death. But, since the end of mass tests and the new definition, narrower, of a death attributed to the COVID, these statistics appear to be out of step with reality. According to experts from the Airfinity Center, the number of deaths in China could currently amount to 9,000 per day and reach 1.7 million by the end of April 2023. sanitary facilities
Jiao Yahahi recalled that only patients who died of a respiratory impairment caused by the virus after having undergone a PCR test whose result was positive were considered as victims of the COVVI-19. In other countries, patients who died within twenty-eight days after having undergone a test whose result has proven to be positive are counted as deaths due to COVID-19. “China has always been committed, from the start to the end, to meet the scientific criteria to judge the deaths due to the COVVI-19, which complies with international criteria,” said M Jiao.
In the continuity of the relief of restrictions, China will reclassify, on January 8, the COVVI-19 in infectious disease of category B, against a previously, which will allow it to soften the health rules. Liang Wannian, responsible for the NHC anti-Cavid 19 policy, estimated, at a press conference, that this decision was appropriate, scientifically and legally founded, reported China Nouvelle.
This change means not that China opens the door to the virus but that it devotes more resources to the most important positions such as epidemic control and treatment of contaminated people, said Liang Wannian.