January 22 (UPI) – Mainland China has sounded the Lunar New Year with a large circle of family gatherings and large public celebrations with the strict “zero-Covid” policy no longer in place despite a surge in cases and deaths, adding 12,660 last week, 3 years after the outbreak of the pandemic in the country.
The deaths occurred only in hospitals, including one home.
In addition, only deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure are counted. That’s not how deaths in the world are counted.
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“He has never experienced what a classic New Year is like because he was too young 3 years ago and didn’t remember it,” said Si Jia, who took her 7-year-old son to Qianmen district near Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. he told Politico.
In Qianmen, locals and tourists appear on the pedestrian streets.
Despite the crowds, this is a large-scale increase, as about 80% of citizens were inflamed in the recent wave, Wu Zunyou, lead epidemiologist at China’s Center for Disease Control, said Saturday.
More than 26 million passenger trips were made on the eve of the Lunar New Year, China’s state-run CCTV reported on Sunday. It is 50. 8% more than in 2022, but only a part in 2019.
About 33,900 people die each day, British data company Airfinity said Friday, up from 14,700 the previous week. Since Dec. 1, cumulative deaths: 708,000. The case estimate is 112 million since Dec. 1.
“Our analytical signs suggest that the virus spread faster in rural areas, in part because other people traveled for Chinese New Year celebrations,” the report said. “This higher rate of expansion has replaced our predictions of predicting two successive waves to a larger one. “and more serious wave.
In the updated mode, cases may peak at 4. 8 million on the day with 62 million expected on June 13 and 27 before starting to decline.
Daily deaths are expected to peak at 36,000 per day in Jab. 26, which is more consistent than our previous estimate of 25,000 per day.
China also publishes knowledge about vaccination.
The update to China’s original “zero-dose” policy for the elderly had left some doubts about how to find a vaccine now.
The vaccination policy rate of China’s population has reached 92. 9%, and more than 90% of the rest of the population is over 60 years old, according to the most recent data released by the Joint COVID-19 Prevention and Control Mechanism of China’s State Council.
Two doses of inactivated vaccines made in China have shown 70% efficacy in preventing serious disease in others over the age of 60. It is 95% after a booster shot.
“A large body of clinical evidence shows that COVID-19 vaccines can particularly decrease the rate of severe illness and death. Vaccination is a very important weapon for us to fight the epidemic,” said Li Lanjuan, an epidemiologist and academician at the Chinese Academy of Medicine. Engineering.
China only allows its locally produced vaccines, which are as effective as others, adding Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
Mainland Chinese travelers are heading to Hong Kong for COVID-19 mRNA vaccines after the country reopened quarantine measures at its borders.
A week ago, the high-speed train between Hong Kong and mainland China resumed for the first time since the pandemic began.
Since January 30, Hong Kong no longer asks for other inflamed people to be quarantined. A mask order still exists, but city leader John Lee said in an interview with Hong Kong Commercial Daily: “My hope in 2023 is to remove all Covid restrictions. “
Hong Kong has downgraded to endemic like the mainland.
“I have to remove the quarantine order for COVID-infected patients. This is one of the vital steps toward normalcy,” Lee said at a legislative assembly on Thursday.
Hong Kong reported 37 deaths and 2,737 cases to 66 deaths and 14,113 infections seven days ago with the record of 79,876 on March 3.
On Sunday, Taiwan reported 27 deaths and 19,187 infections.
Global data
The seven-day average of 1668 deaths is among the lowest since 1232 on March 22, 2020, 11 days after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. It was 1440 on November 20, 2022.
On Sunday, 671 deaths and 130,340 were reported, the latter being the lowest since mid-June 2020.
Some countries report knowledge on weekends. The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and PreventionThe U. S. Department of Health and Prevention has made weekly updates.
Over the past week, Asia reported 63. 3 of the world’s cases, up from 30. 9 five weeks ago, and declined 33 to a total of 211,801,074, according to Worldometers. info. The continent is home to 59% of the world’s population.
Africa the only continent to progress: 50% for a cumulative total of 12,764,539.
Other declines were North America 51% to 122,937,809, Oceania 49% to 13,842,392, Europe 38% to a global ceiling of 244,403,825, South America 29% to 67,568,309.
Two continents recorded an accumulation of deaths: Africa 86% for 258,441 and South America 46% for 1,345,966.
The declines were North America 45% to 1,591,737, Europe 30% to a global ceiling of 2,000,791, Oceania 22% to 24,604, Asia 9% to 1,524,861.
No country has reported an increase in deaths and cases in the past week.
Japan again recorded the number of weekly cases, 672,526, down 34%, and again led the way in deaths with 2779, down 2%.
South Korea returns to the moment in infections with 208,574, 31% less to 273 deaths, 23% less to 13.
USA. The U. S. population fell third in infections with 161,094, but a low of 52 percent and a moment behind in deaths with 1,702, a drop of 49 percent.
Taiwan decreased in descending order 31% in fourth position with 135,567, Brazil 26% in fifth position with 98,882, Germany 34% in sixth position with 63,249, Italy 56% in eighth position with 34,742, Hong Kong 57% in tenth position with 29,861, Mexico 27% in position 11 with 27,946.
Among the countries that report more than one hundred deaths with increases in the last week: Brazil 102% in 3rd with 947, Spain 10% in 6th with 379, Mexico 319 in 11th with 319, Colombia 12% in 15th with 126, Philippines 32% in 16 with 123.
The declines were Germany 15% in fourth with 928, Great Britain 31% in fifth with 765, France 31% in seventh with 378, Australia 15% in eighth with 336, Hong Kong 29% in ninth with 334, Italy 47% in tenth with 330, Russia 7% in 12 with 298, Taiwan 9% in 14 with 269, Peru 24% in 17 with 116, Chile 36% in 18th with 104th.
The United States leads with 1,128,807 deaths and 103,856,217 infections. The country also holds the world record for cases with 906,988 on Jan. 7. Brazil is the moment in deaths with 696,323, adding 7 on Sunday, and fifth in cases with 36,734,089 adding 1,073 maximum recently.
India holds the record for deaths at 4,529 on May 18, 2021, with no regional adjustments.
In the 10 most sensitive deaths, Russia is fourth with 394,694 adding 41 on Sunday, Mexico 5th with 331,881 adding 11 on Sunday, Peru 6th with 218,649 adding 24 on Sunday, Great Britain 7th with 203,229, Italy 8th with 186,488, Germany 9th with 164,703, France tenth with 163,752.
In the 10 most sensitive cases, France is 3rd with 39,484,549 adding 3,477 on Sunday, Germany fourth with 37,668,384, Japan 6th with 32,045,328 adding 64,450 on Sunday, South Korea 7th with 29,999,529 adding 16,624 on Sunday, Italy 8th with 25,415,630, Great Britain 9th with 24,0,259 with 21,894,157 adding 5,729 on Sunday.
On Jan. 6, Japan reported 245,542 cases, the most since a record 255,810 on Aug. 20, but the figure dropped last week to more than 125,108 on Wednesday.
The seven-day average of cellular instances in Japan is 96,076 compared to 26,235 on October 12 and fewer than 20,000 in early July with a record 255,316 on August 18.
And deaths on Sunday were 326 with a record 503 on Jan. 14. Before August, it marks 257 on February 24. The seven-day average is 397 at most.
“In order to further advance efforts to ‘live with Corona’ and return Japan to a state of normalcy, we will move policies and measures so far in phases,” Kishida said.
COVID-19 is a Class 2 disease, just like tuberculosis and bird flu, according to Japan’s Ministry of Health. It would move to Class 5, the lowest rank.
Throughout the pandemic, Japan has experienced a low mortality rate and is expanding significantly.
Japan has 521 deaths per million, the 153rd in the country, with the global at 865. 4 and Peru not. 1 in 6,490. In cases, Japan’s rate is 255,169 consistent with million in position 79 with the global 86,376 and Austria among the top countries at 634,808 with France, 601,988, South Korea 584,446, Portugal 548,511 and Denmark 543,696. The population of Japan is 125 million.
The seven-day average of instances in South Korea is 29,798, but reached 404,666 on March 19, while the daily record was 621,328 on March 17.
Deaths in South Korea on Sunday 24.
In the EE. UU. al January 20, the CDC classified 6. 1% of counties, districts, and territories as having a “high” transmission point, compared with 31. 4% “medium” and 62. 5% “low. “In the “high” places, scattered basically in the Northeast, Southeast and Texas, masks are found indoors.
The CDC reported 332,212 instances last week, a week after 436,776 and 4 weeks after 496,373, the high since 526,228 on Sept. 7. On October 19, 260,452, the lowest since 229,296 on April 13. The record 5,629,914 on 19 enero. la average death 3,958, a week after 4,209, the most since 5,067 on March 30 a year ago, with 3 weeks ago 2,504 and seven weeks ago 1,769, the lowest since July 7, 2021 of 1,690. The record 23,387 on January 13, 2021.
The main subvariant of Omicron XBB. 1. 5 accounted for 49. 1% of the total number of instances in the week ending Saturday, with BQ. 1. 1 at 26. 9%, BQ. 1 at 13. 3%. BA. 5, which had prevailed since the beginning of the summer, fell to 2%. Omicron monkeys 100%.
In its weekly update, the CDC said, “Seasonal flu continues to decline across the country.
The CDC estimates that there have been at least 25 million flu illnesses, 270,000 hospitalizations and 17,000 flu deaths this season. The deaths come with at least 85 children, adding 6 last week.
On Friday, January 20, 2020, 3 years ago, the United States showed the first case, in Snohomish County, just north of Seattle, Washington. The man in his thirties had recently returned from Wuhan, China, where the virus first made its impression in 2019.
The first death reported Feb. 29 in the Seattle area.
The coronavirus was the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2020 and 2021, focusing on disease and cancer. Data for 2022 has not yet been compiled.
More than 267,000 people died from the coronavirus in 2022, according to initial data from Johns Hopkins University, up from more than 350,000 in 2020 and more than 475,000 in 2021.