With one of the lowest coronavirus tolls in the world, China has been routinely accused of downplaying infections and deaths for political reasons
, said Wang Guiqiang, head of the infectious disease department at Peking University First Hospital.
Wang said the criteria had changed because the Omicron variant was less likely to cause other life-threatening symptoms, though China’s hospitals were still required to judge each case to ascertain precisely whether or not Covid was the ultimate cause. Yet disease experts outside China say this specific approach would miss several other widely recognised types of potentially fatal Covid complications, from blood clots to heart attacks as well as sepsis and kidney failure.
Last month Korean researchers reported that 33% of Omicron-related deaths between July 2021 and March 2022 at one large hospital were due to causes other than pneumonia.With one of the lowest Covid death tolls in the world, China has been routinely accused of downplaying infections and deaths for political reasons.
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