XI Jinping had decided at the end of the zero covid policy in the country, in early December, against the backdrop of social disputes after important health restrictions in several regions of the country.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
For the first time since the lifting of the restrictions linked to zero covid policy in China, the country’s health authorities disseminated, on Saturday January 14, a record of the number of deaths linked to the disease on their territory. Between December 8, 2022 and January 12, 2023, 59,938 people would have died of the epidemic, either directly from respiratory failures associated with COVVI-19 (for 5,503 of them), or of the COVVI-19 contracted in parallel d ‘Other pathologies (54,435).
Information was disseminated by Jiao Yahaha on behalf of the National Health Commission, and does not take into account the deaths recorded outside of medical structures. Xi Jinping had decided at the end of zero covid policy in the country, in early December, against the backdrop of social disputes after significant health restrictions in several regions of the country.