China has recorded 83,000 deaths in clinics since the end of “zero covid”

Beijing, February 15 China recorded a total of 83,150 deaths in hospitals related to covid-19 between December 8, when the start of the dismantling of the “zero covid” policy, and February 9, according to data from the Center for Disease Control in China.

92.02% of deaths were caused by a worsening of an underlying disease associated with covid-19, the report said.

The rest of the deaths were mainly caused by respiratory failure brought on by the coronavirus, which spread rapidly across the country in December and January after restrictions were eased.

The CDC reported last week that the number of covid-19 deaths in clinics across the country fell 97.6% on February 6 from the peak of 4,273 deaths recorded on January 4.

Meanwhile, the number of hospital admissions for covid reached its peak of 1.6 million on January 5, when it began to drop to a recorded 60,000 on February 6.

After nearly three years of severe restrictions, lockdowns and near-total border closures that eventually crystallized into protests in various parts of the country, China began to dismantle the “zero covid” strategy in early December, and on the 8 January, it reduced the coverage of the disease from category A – maximum level of danger – to B, thus marking in practice the end of this policy.