No deaths, 16 new cases of contamination and 126 recoveries were confirmed in the Kingdom on December 24 and 25, 2022. The still active cases stand at 545, while more than 6.86 million people have received the third dose. . Monitoring the pandemic, in figures.
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In the Maghreb, Algeria does not communicate the number of screening tests, which suggests that the number of contaminations is much higher than the official figures. The last assessment stopped reports a single case of contamination, while no death was deplored. The country totals 271,194 cases of contamination, including 6,881 deaths and 182,629 recoveries.
In Tunisia, 27 new cases of contamination and 6 deaths have been recorded, according to the latest report available. The country has totaled 1,147,477 cases of contamination, including 29,279 deaths and 1,134,174 recoveries since March 2020.
In Mauritania, no case of contamination has been recorded, according to the latest report available. The country has recorded 63,425 cases of Covid-19 contamination, including 997 deaths.
China’s National Health Commission, which serves as a ministry, announced on Sunday that it will no longer publish daily figures for Covid cases and deaths, as it has done since early 2020.
She gave no explanation. But these statistics no longer reflected the unprecedented wave of contamination that has hit China since the abandonment on December 7 of the strict health measures of the “zero Covid” policy.
Previously, quasi-compulsory PCR tests made it possible to reliably follow the epidemic trend. But infected people now carry out self-tests at home and rarely report the results to the authorities, which prevents having reliable figures.
“From today, we will no longer publish daily information on the epidemic,” said the national health commission.
“The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will publish information related to the epidemic, for reference and research purposes,” she added, without specifying the type or frequency of data. which will be published by the CDC.
The Chinese, who saw a total discrepancy between the contamination of a large part of their relatives and the official statistics, greeted the announcement with derision.
“Eventually they wake up and realize they can’t fool people anymore” with understated numbers, writes a Weibo social network user.
“It was the best and biggest fake statistics office in the country,” said another. “Are there crematorium workers here? Are you overloaded? Can you talk about it?” Calls a third.
Many crematoriums interviewed by AFP recently reported an unusually high influx of bodies. A situation largely ignored by the Chinese media.
They evoke, however, to a certain extent, hospitals under tension in the face of the arrival of patients and the shortage of anti-fever drugs.
Another source of controversy which discredited the official statistics: under a new methodology, only people who died directly from respiratory failure linked to Covid are now counted as deceased from Covid.
China has only announced six Covid deaths since restrictions were lifted. However, many seniors do not have a complete vaccination schedule and find themselves on the front line against the virus.
Half a million people are infected daily in Qingdao (east), a city of 10 million inhabitants, a municipal official quoted by the official press estimated this week.
The pandemic has officially killed at least 6,685,766 people worldwide since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP. The United States is the country with the most deaths (1,115,933), ahead of Brazil (692,886), India (530,693) and Russia (393,383).
The World Health Organization estimates, taking into account the excess mortality directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19, that the toll of the pandemic could be two to three times higher than that officially established.