International health experts predict at least one million deaths in China this year
“China and the Chinese people will surely win the final victory against the epidemic,” Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece the People’s Daily said in an editorial, rebutting criticism of its tough antivirus regime that triggered historic protests late last year.
Health officials from the 27-member European Union are due to meet on Wednesday to discuss a co-ordinated response to China travel. Most EU countries favour pre-departure Covid testing for visitors from China. China reported five new Covid-19 deaths for Tuesday, compared with three a day earlier, bringing the official death toll to 5,258, very low by global standards.
There were chaotic scenes at Shanghai’s Zhongshan hospital where patients, many of them elderly, jostled for space on Tuesday in packed halls between makeshift beds where people used oxygen ventilators and got intravenous drips. Despite some countries imposing restrictions on Chinese visitors, interest in outbound travel from the world’s most populous country is cranking up, state media reported.
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