How many Covid-19 deaths have occurred in China?

Twenty-five thousand or forty thousand a day? The figures on Covid-19 deaths in China continue to be a dangerous enigma for the entire world. There is a complete lack of transparency and certainty that, as the country's authorities say with bombastic and unfounded announcements, the China is now out of the tunnel.

HOW MANY COVID-19 DEATHS HAVE CHINA EVER DEAD?

The only certain and updated data we have comes from the Chinese Ministry of Health and speaks of 59.938 Covid-19 victims between December 8 and January 12The ministry emphasizes that 5.503 people have died from respiratory failure, while 54.435 have died from previous pathologies aggravated by the infection. This is to say that the coronavirus it has become fatal in a few cases compared to the total number of infected deaths.

But even these data are absolutely partial and uncertain, as they refer only to deaths that occurred and were recorded in hospitals. In fact, according to an estimate by the World Health Organization, based on research by the company Airfinity, The omicron variant It has already caused nearly half a million deaths in China. The Chinese statistics are of particular concern to us for two reasons. Until the virus is defeated in the country where it originated, we will never be close to a definitive turning point, anywhere in the world, including Italy. With such high numbers, and despite the Chinese regime's reluctance, it is difficult to imagine the global economy resuming its natural course as it did before Covid-19.

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