The deaths follow Beijing’s abrupt move to dismantle its strict Covid-19 regime.
A US study found an estimated 1.87 million excess deaths from all causes occurred among people over 30.
It found an estimated 1.87 million excess deaths from all causes occurred among people over 30 years of age between December 2022 and January 2023, and were observed in all provinces in mainland China except Tibet. In the study, researchers performed statistical analysis using information from published obituaries and data from searches on Baidu, a popular Chinese internet search engine. “Our study of excess deaths related to the lifting of the zero-Covid policy in China sets an empirically derived benchmark estimate. These findings are important for understanding how the sudden propagation of Covid-19 across a population may impact population mortality,” researchers wrote.
China stopped reporting official daily death results at the end of 2022. The World Health Organization says there have been 121,628 Covid deaths in China, out of a total global toll of almost 7 million.
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