The study was done by the federally funded Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BEIJING - China's abrupt move to dismantle its strict Covid-19 regime, which unleashed the virus onto its 1.4 billion residents, could have led to nearly 2 million excess deaths in the following two months, a new US study shows.
China's decision last December to end the three-year zero-Covid policy, which included mass-testing and stringent and persistent quarantine lockdowns, led to a massive surge in hospitalisations and deaths that health experts say were largely unreported by the government. "Our study of excess deaths related to the lifting of the zero-Covid policy in China sets an empirically derived benchmark estimate. These findings are important for understanding how the sudden propagation of Covid-19 across a population may impact population mortality," researchers wrote.
China stopped reporting official daily death results at the end of 2022. The World Health Organisation says there have been 121,628 Covid-19 deaths in China, out of a total global toll of almost 7 million.
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