Paul Tambyah, President of the Asia Pacific Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infection, supported that view. The NHC also played down international concern about the possibility of virus mutations, saying the likelihood of new strains that are more pathogenic was low. Wang expected the COVID wave to peak in late January, with life likely to return to normal by late February or early March. "We must act quickly and prepare fever clinics, emergency and severe treatment resources," Wang Guangfa, a respiratory specialist from Peking University First Hospital, told the newspaper. The death toll might rise sharply, with the state-run Global Times newspaper citing a Chinese respiratory expert predicting a spike in severe cases in Beijing over the coming weeks. "There's all sorts of medical complications." 'ACT QUICKLY'
"It doesn't make sense to apply this sort of March 2020 mindset where it's only COVID pneumonia that can kill you," Mazer said. The National Health Commission said on Tuesday only deaths caused by pneumonia and respiratory failure in patients who had the virus are classified as COVID deaths.īenjamin Mazer, an assistant professor of pathology at Johns Hopkins University, said that classification would miss "a lot of cases", especially as people who are vaccinated, including with Chinese shots, are less likely to die of pneumonia.īlood clots, heart problems and sepsis - an extreme body response to infection - have caused countless deaths among COVID patients around the world. But none has been updated to target the highly infectious Omicron variant, as Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna (MRNA.O) have for boosters in many countries.Ĭhina uses a narrow definition of COVID deaths and reported no new fatalities for Tuesday, even crossing one off its overall tally since the pandemic began, now at 5,241 - a fraction of the tolls of many much less populous countries. His comment came as the German government confirmed it has sent its first batch of BioNTech (22UAy.DE) COVID-19 vaccines to China to be administered initially to German expatriates.Ĭhina has nine domestically developed COVID vaccines approved for use. "The WHO is very concerned over the evolving situation in China, with increasing reports of severe disease," he said.
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