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Top China health official says Covid deaths increasing in 'normal' range

Patients lie on beds in a hallway in the emergency department of Zhongshan Hospital amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai, January 3, 2023. [Reuters]

A top health official in China has said that the fatalities from the latest surge in COVID-19 cases are “increasing” but within the normal range for mortality.

In an interview with state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV), Jiao Yahui, a National Health Commission official, said, “We have a huge base, so what people feel is that the severe cases, the critical cases or the fatalities are increasing.

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