'Not necessary' to dwell on Covid-19 death tally, Chinese officials say | News24

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Chinese health officials said on Wednesday it was 'not necessary' to dwell on the exact number of Covid deaths in the country, days after the World Health Organisation criticised authorities' accounting of a surge in cases there.

The WHO has recently questioned the country's tallies of death numbers.Chinese health officials said Wednesday it was"not necessary" to dwell on the exact number of Covid deaths in the country, days after the World Health Organisation criticised authorities' accounting of a surge in cases there.

However, official figures have borne little resemblance to the situation on the ground and Beijing came under fire in December for drastically narrowing its definition of a Covid-19 fatality. "If consensus can be reached globally, it would be the best," he said of the definition of Covid deaths."If consensus cannot be reached, each country will classify it according to its own situation."Wang Guiqiang, head of the infectious disease department at Peking University First Hospital, suggested at the same news conference China could determine the number of Covid deaths after the fact by looking at the overall excess mortality rate.

Under the government's revised methodology, only those who die specifically of respiratory failure caused by the virus are recorded as Covid deaths, meaning many related fatalities go uncounted.

 

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The organisation is called World Health OrganiZation NOT World Health OrganiSation.

WHO WEHAD ENOUGH OF YOU HUSHHHHH

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So ... the numbers are that high?

Let that be a lesson to wokeists with their stupid tallys of vaxxed,unvaxxed,dead,dying,almost dead! as per usual pulled the ring out of everything!

Never trust the Chinese.

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