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China pledges ‘final victory’ over Covid-19
Updated On: 05 January, 2023 09:04 AM IST | Beijing | Agencies
The country has rejected foreign scepticism of its statistics as politically motivated attempts to smear its achievements in fighting the virus
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Patients on wheelchairs and people in the emergency department of a hospital in Beijing Tuesday. Pic/AFP
Global health officials tried to determine the facts of China’s raging COVID-19 outbreak and how to prevent a further spread as the Communist Party’s mouthpiece newspaper on Wednesday rallied citizens for a “final victory” over COVID.
China’s axing of its stringent virus curbs last month has unleashed COVID on a 1.4 billion population that has little natural immunity having been shielded from the virus since it emerged in the central city of Wuhan three years ago. Many funeral homes and hospitals say they are overwhelmed, and international health experts predict at least one million deaths in China this year, but China has reported five or fewer deaths a day since the policy U-turn.
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