by Alex Wu, The Epoch Times:
Meanwhile, the number of reported COVID-19 deaths in China remains orders of magnitude lower than is expected for a country of its population.
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that new COVID-19 infections in the country of origin have increased to nearly 20 percent in the past few weeks, as two new Omicron subvariants spread across the country.
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But while increases to China’s official COVID-19 test positivity rate mirrors that of the rest of the world, its number of reported COVID-19 deaths remains orders of magnitude lower than is expected for a country of its population, given the ongoing reports of COVID-19-related deaths in other countries.
According to its Aug. 8 report, China’s CDC reported that the COVID-19 test positivity rate in the country spiked to 18.7 percent in the last week of July, up from 8.9 percent at the start of the month. According to the official data, that rate has not exceeded 8 percent since the start of the year.
The trend of China’s official infection data parallels that reported in the United States. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC), in its Aug. 8
biweekly update, reported that the COVID-19 test positivity rate in the United States had increased in the past six months to 17.6 percent.
According to the World Health Organization’s monitoring data from 84 countries, the overall COVID-19 test positivity rate stands above 10 percent but varies by region. That percentage has been
rising for weeks, it said. Europe also reported a 20 percent increase in its positive COVID-19 tests since the start of 2024.
But for the month of July, China’s CDC reported only two deaths from COVID. Meanwhile, the U.S. CDC data
reflected significantly more provisional COVID-related deaths, with 1,920 U.S. deaths reported in July citing COVID-19 as an underlying or contributing cause. China also has a much larger population: 1.4 billion to the United States’
335 million.
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