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Stop listing Covid as cause of death: Chinese docs told
Updated On: 10 January, 2023 10:27 AM IST | Beijing | Agencies
Diktat comes despite funeral homes across the country reportedly overflowing amid an increase in virus cases
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Elderly patients with Covid symptoms receive intravenous drips at the emergency ward of a hospital in Fuyang in central China’s Anhui province. Pic/PTI
China has kept its Covid-19 death toll at a little over 5,000, despite funeral homes across the country reportedly overflowing amid an increase in virus cases. Chinese doctors have been asked to avoid listing Covid-19 as a cause of death, NTD reported.
A doctor at a hospital in Beijing was asked to not report Covid-19 as the primary cause of death, NTD reported citing The New York Times. A group chat conversation has asked doctors to not list the Covid-19 virus as the cause of death, as per the NTD report.
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