Beijing: President Xi Jinping said tough challenges remain in China s fight against Covid 19 and urged patience, after weeks of silence on a virus pol.
China could see as many as 25,000 deaths a day from COVID-19 later in January. Mortalities from the contagious respiratory illness will probably peak around Jan. 23, the second day of the annual holiday in the country of 1.4 billion, according to a London-based research firm.
China has limited the definition of COVID-19 deaths and will henceforth only account the deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure, a Chinese health official has said as virus cases surge across the country.
Under the new definition, deaths occurring over pre-existing illnesses are not counted as COVID-19 deaths, said Wang Guiqiang, the head of infectious disease at Peking University’s No. 1 Hospital, reports AP news agency.